Ellesborough Circular A 6.5 miles walk through two contrasting landscape, the hilly wooded Chilterns and the flat openVale of Aylesbury Walk

Directions ? Take the bridleway opposite Great Kimble church up to the top of the hill. Join the Ridgeway and then turn left through the gate. Follow the path across a clearing and through the woods, emerging onto the fields close to Chequers. Cross the driveway and the road, then take the bridleway up the hill. Follow the waymarked path through the woods and back down to the road.Take the bridleway on the right, then at the gate turn left to Coombe. ? At the road, turn right, then left into a large field.Take the path across the field and at the bridleway turn right to Ellesborough Church.A short cut can be taken here past Cymbelline's castle and through the woods back to the Ridgeway. ? Go through the churchyard and across the field.Turn left at the woodland and follow the path across fields and down to the road at Brookside Farm.A short cut follows the road and the railway line to Old Grange.The main route goes under the railway bridge and left along Grove Lane.Take the first footpath on the right towards Kimblewick Road. ? Cross the fields to the road, then turn left and take the bridleway on the right shortly after a bend in the road. Follow the route across fields, the road and the railway line and thence across the fields back to Great Kimble. Refreshments: There are public houses in both Great and Little Kimble. Features of Interest distinctive hill known as Cymbeline's Mount, which can be seen from many points along the route, is the site of a hill 1 Chequers was given to the nation fort from this era. by Lord Lee of Fareham in 1917 as a country house for the Prime 6 The Old Grange Farmhouse was built in the fifteenth Minister of the day. It is a 16th century and was originally owned by MissendenAbbey.The century brick mansion on the site moat once surrounded the buildings but only two sides still of a much older building. There is exist.The barn was built in 1793 and consists of a timber no public access to the house and you are requested to frame with weather boarding. keep to the path. 7 The earthworks in the field by the 2 Coombe Hill is owned by the National Trust.The well- A4010 are a Scheduled Ancient known Monument is dedicated to the Buckinghamshire Monument and represent the men who died in the Boer War and the view from here remains of a mediaeval extension extends as far as the Berkshire Downs and,on a clear day, to the village of Great Kimble. the Cotswolds. 3 Situated on an imposing mound with good views of Follow the Countryside Code: Aylesbury Vale, Ellesborough Church is a flint-faced ? Be safe, plan ahead and follow any signs building originating from the twelfth century. ? Leave gates and property as you find them ? Protect plants and animals and take your litter home 4 Water which has percolated through the chalk emerges ? Keep dogs under close control in springs at the base of the Chilterns.The stream just ? Consider other people north of Ellesborough powered a corn mill which was gutted by fire in 1933 and subsequently demolished.The Further Information: millponds can still be seen beside the path. Rights of Way & Access, County Hall, Aylesbury, HP20 1UY Telephone:01296 382171 5 The name Kimble, is believed to be a corruption of Email: [email protected] Cunobelin (the Cymbeline of the Shakespeare play), a or visit our website at www.buckscc.gov.uk/rights_of_way first century king of the Catuvellaunii, whose tribal lands were centred on the present day counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. The 482000 483000 484000 485000

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