Walks on Commons Near Great Missenden
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The house was eventually sold to an toilets and a railway station. wealth. insurance group and the house has now been restored to its former glory. Look out for the magnificent cedar trees. Take a break with a picnic on the commons and/or D Chequers The refreshments at a pub or café along the route. You will Chequers Court Estate G Great Hampden common is popular with walkers, with pass the Hampden Arms (01494 488255) in Great has been the country numerous footpaths passing through linking the common Hampden. The Russell Arms (01296 624411) in Butler's residence of the British with the surrounding countryside. Prime Minister since Cross is close to the route, and there are pubs and cafes in 1917. It may be named Great Missenden and Wendover. H Prestwood From medieval times until the 19th century, after Elias Ostiarius, Prestwood had a large area of common of which the usher of the Court of For details of places to stay, visitor attractions and other recreation ground is the final remnant. Local people grazed the Exchequer, who their animals on the common, gathered firewood and gorse. walks, contact the Tourist Information Office in Wendover owned the land in the Clock Tower (tel 01296 696759) or see Orchards were planted over the common after it was 12th century, or enclosed and these have now been replaced by houses. www.visitchilterns.co.uk perhaps after the Chequers or wild Chequers I Angling Spring Wood is an ancient woodland and service tree which grow in the grounds. contains some rare slugs and fungi. Roald Dahl, the famous Points of interest children's author who lived in Great Missenden, used to walk in Angling Spring Wood which probably inspired the woods The following points of interest can be found on the walks. featured in Danny the Champion of the World. See map for locations. J Great Missenden is a large village with many old A Wendover is an old and picturesque town. The main buildings in the narrow High Street. During 1980, some streets contain many old houses, usually with tiled roofs and a television horror films were filmed in and around Great few thatched cottages. The Red Lion Hotel, a half-timbered Missenden. In June 2005 the Roald Dahl Museum and Story building with brick noggin, is of particular note. Oliver Centre opened in the village to honour the work of Dahl. Cromwell stayed here in 1642. Nearby, Wendover Woods is an Great Missenden was also temporarily home to the writer attractive place to visit with 700 hectares of deciduous and Robert Louis Stevenson. pine woodland, and Coombe Hill, with its monument to the Little Hampden second Boer War, is worth a visit and offers tremendous views. K Dunsmore occupies a hilltop position with access by two E Little Hampden common Today, the common is wooded steep, single-track hillside lanes. Much of the surrounding but just a hundred years ago it was open and locals played B Ellesborough The parish church of St Peter and St Paul land is owned by the National Trust and is heavily wooded cricket near the Rising Sun pub, now closed. The peaceful stands apart from the village, high on the hill overlooking it. with beech trees, and bracken. little 12th century church is decorated with 13th and 14th Built in the 14th and 15th centuries, it was restored and century wall paintings. externally refaced in the 19th century. South Bucks Way Description of route: 11 Cross the road and follow the footpath through a gate, 17 Go straight on over the crossroads, marked to Dunsmore The routes, which have been bearing left across the field to another gate. Take the path village only. The road becomes a track into the woods and described in an anti-clockwise across the corner of the woodland to a field. Follow the path forks shortly afterwards. Take the right fork on the bridleway direction, mainly follow paths to the right alongside the wood, then on a clear path across between fences and continue past a field on the right into across commons, woods and three fields to a gate. Go through the gate and turn left, the woods. At the next fork, take the left path, keeping close fields, and crosses stiles. There following the path through the corner of the field and on to to the wire fence on your left, then take the uphill path on are short stretches on lanes, the road (Wycombe Road). the left. At the waymarked cross paths, turn left (there's a and there are usually yellow arrow on a tree) and this soon comes to a stile at the pavements in the villages.