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Country Parks and Green Spaces Project List of Country Parks and Green Spaces Area Site Monument Parish Description Trail Hectares Acres Ashgrove Little 1.70 4.20 Part of Green Belt Estate. Picnic area within Picnic Site Missenden Chilterns AONB. Links to accessible land owned by the Forestry Commission. Bacombe Hill Wendover 25.30 62.52 Part of Green Belt Estate. High profile site on Chilterns escarpment. Site of Special Scientific Interest for wildlife. Designated a Local Nature Reserve. Also contains Scheduled Ancient Monuments. Part of a popular access network on the escarpment overlooking Aylesbury Vale. Ridgeway National Trail runs through. Part classified as Open Access Land. Black Park Wexham 216.51 535.00 Mature mixed woodland Country Park with lake, Country Park open area, café, childrens play area, 400 space car park and over 14 miles of tracks with excellent access. LNR & SSSI. Pine woods, lowland heath and mixed deciduous woodland on acidic soils. Over 414,000 visitors per year. Part of the Langley Park Estate. Brill Walks Brill 2.90 7.17 Part of Green Belt Estate. Area of grazed grassland and mature trees on edge of Brill Village. Well used by local community. Brill Windmill Brill 0.01 0.02 C17th Century Grade II listed post windmill. Well known north Bucks landmark and highly valued historic feature. Canal Car Aston Clinton 0.50 1.24 Small car park on edge of the Highway. Gives Park access to the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal. Caps Wood Denham 9.50 23.47 Part of Green Belt Estate. Area of woodland split (including by road scheme. Small car park and picnic area. picnic site) Captains Chesham 11.00 27.18 Part of Green Belt Estate. Designated as a Local Wood Nature Reserve. Site of high wildlife value close to built up area of Chesham. Within the Chilterns AONB. Cholesbury Cholesbury 0.42 1.04 Part of Green Belt Estate. Area of woodland and Camp scrub on Iron Age camp Scheduled Ancient Monument. Cobblers Pits Aston Clinton 6.31 15.59 Part of Green Belt Estate. Small woodland within (Catsbrains tenanted farmland linking to the Wendover Arm of Estate) the Grand Union Canal and close to Green Park. Cockshoots Wendover 0.21 0.52 Small car park/picnic site on free lease offered by Wood Picnic the landowner. Within the Chilterns AONB. Good Site links to surrounding Rights of Way network. Coombe Hill Ellesborough 0.01 0.02 Buckinghamshire Boer War Memorial. Owned and Monument maintained by BCC but within National Trust land on very popular viewpoint in Chilterns Escarpment. Listed Structure. Cublington Cublington 0.28 0.69 Part of Smallholdings Estate. Created to Spinney & commemorate defeat of airport proposal. Small car Airport park and walk. Monument Denham Denham 27.92 69.00 Small wetland site hosting the Colne Valley Park Country Park visitor centre and Groundwork Thames Valley. Situated close to the M40 with the Grand Union Canal, River Colne and River Misbourne mature woodland and wet meadows. Car parking for 100 cars. Small café run by the Colne Valley Partnership, annually 56,500 visitors. Deep Mill Little 0.25 0.62 Pond situated adjacent to the Highway. Local Pond Missenden historic and wildlife interest. No public access but visible as a feature from the road. Within Chilterns AONB. Farnham Hedgerley 2.00 4.94 Part of Green Belt Estate. Small triangular area of Common woodland near road junction. Short path created Wood through the site. Gotts Chalfont St 0.01 0.01 Stone & brick obelisk (C18th or C19th) situated in Monument Peter the grounds of the National Society of Epilepsy headquarters. Grangelands Great & Little 16.20 40.03 Part of Green Belt Estate. Site of Special Scientific and the Rifle Kimble Interest for wildlife. Within Chilterns AONB. Within Range an area popular for visitors linking with National Trust land. Ridgeway National Trail runs through. Classified as Open Access Land. Hampden Prestwood 0.01 0.02 Part of Green Belt Estate. Stone monument to Monument John Hampden within small maintained access/viewing area. Within Chilterns AONB. Hog and Medmenham 33.00 81.54 Part of Green Belt Estate. Part is a Site of Special Hollowhill Scientific Interest and Chilterns Beechwoods Woods European Special Area for Conservation. Within Chilterns AONB. No car park but Rights of Way and informal access routes through the wood. Links with site owned by the Woodland Trust. Holtspur Wooburn 0.05 0.12 Green Belt Estate. Car park and picnic area Picnic Site Green adjacent to road. Kingsbridge Stewkley 0.35 0.86 Part of Smallholdings Estate. Car park and picnic Picnic Site area created to allow access to statutory and permissive access routes and memorial plntation. Within an area otherwise devoid of countryside access opportunities. Kingsbridge Stewkley 0.00 0.00 Permissive trail created around former River Smallholdings farms (now sold but access route Walk/Farm retained) to provide countryside access Trail opportunity from Kingsbridge Picnic Site. Long Spinney Wing 4.27 10.55 Part of Smallholdings Estate. In-hand woodland (Burcott Hall adjacent to former County Farm. Wet site with Farm) good wildlife interest. Access route gives local community access to countryside. Langley Park Wexham 66.77 165.00 Grade 2 historic parkland with Brownian Country Park landscapes. Subject to £3.1m HLF restoration programme. Mature secondary oak woodland , open grass vistas, views to Windsor Castle, extensive Edwardian Rhododendron collection and arboretum, annually 92,200 visitors. Part of the Langley Park Estate. Missenden Great 21.15 52.26 Part of Green Belt Estate. Tenanted grazing land Abbey Missenden of high landscape value. Registered Historic Parkland Parkland. Access routes maintained to facilitate public access. Important access site for local community. Within Chilterns AONB. Northmoor Hill Denham 8.80 21.74 Part of Green Belt Estate. High wildlife interest. Woods Also contains site of geological interest. (including Designated as a Local Nature Reserve close to picnic site) built up areas. Car Park and picnic area. Pavis, Black & Drayton 34.40 85.00 Part of Green Belt Estate. Mature woodland on the Northill Woods Beauchamp Chilterns Escarpment, within the AONB. No car park but access route throughout the site, including the Ridgeway National Trail. Rowley Wexham 36.73 90.76 Part of Green Belt Estate. In hand woodlands Woods & adjacent to Black Park Country Park. The woods Rowley Farm and the farm trail give access to an extended area Trail for visitors. Part of the Langley Park Estate. Shipton Winslow 0.12 0.30 Small parking area and picnic site created on Bridge Picnic former highway following road straightening Site scheme. Spade Oak Little Marlow 0.30 0.74 Part of Green Belt Estate. Car park and picnic area Picnic Site giving access to the nearby River Thames and and Spade restored gravel pits plus single field adjacent to the Oak Meadow River Thames (Thames Path National Trail) used extensively for recreation. Stockgrove Soulbury 32.40 80.06 Country Park Visitor centre offices, car park for 60 cars lake, ancient woodland conifer plantations, meadows and heath. Part of a larger estate totalling 260 acres. Shared ownership with Central Beds Council. The site is managed by the Greensand Trust on behalf of both councils. Stanbridge Haddenham 0.17 0.42 Part of Smallholdings Estate. Car park and picnic Picnic Site site established on area adjacent to Bucks CC (links to tenanted Farm and linking to Farm Trail. Also Church Farm adjacent to the Tiggywinkles Animal Hospital. Trail below) Church Farm Haddenham 0.00 0.00 Permissive trail created around Smallholdings farm Trail (links to provide countryside access opportunity from from Stanbridge Picnic Site. Stanbridge Picnic Site above) Thornborough Thornborough 0.12 0.30 Small car park and picnic site created on former Bridge Picnic highway land when new road scheme created. Site Next to the historic Thornborough Bridge. Links to Thornborough Community Woodland. Thornborough Thornborough 68.30 168.77 Part of Smallholdings Estate. Major new Community community woodland created in late 1990s on Woodland & former tenanted farm within an area of the County Coombs lacking in such access opportunities. Developing Quarry mosaic of habitats. Includes old Coombs Quarry of significant geological/educational value (site of regionally geological importance) and designated as a Local Nature Reserve. Adjacent tenanted farm has meadows of high wildlife value accessible via permissive routes from the woodland. Thorney Park Iver 18.21 45.00 Lake and grassland site, previously minerals extraction and landfill - bisceted by River Colnebrook. 25m deep lake excellent for wildfowl in the winter. Unused car park facilities. Three Locks Soulbury 0.56 1.38 Small car park and picnic site created on land Picnic Site acquired for highway improvement. Close to Grand Union Canal and a public house. Whielden Amersham 0.30 0.74 Part of Green Belt Estate. Small car park and Gate Picnic picnic site. Within Chilterns AONB. Site Whiteleaf Hill Princes 11.03 27.26 Part of Green Belt Estate. High profile site on & Picnic Site Risborough Chilterns escarpment. Major feature is Whiteleaf Cross Scheduled Ancient Monument. Designated a Local Nature Reserve. Also contains other Scheduled Ancient Monuments. Restored through a major Heritage Lottery Funded capital project 2002-2005. Part of a well used access network on the escarpment overlooking Princes Risbourough. Ridgeway National Trail and Icknield Way Riders Route runs through. Part classified as Open Access Land. Within Chilterns AONB Total area of greenspaces 663.08 1638.48 and woodlands .
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