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This is one of a series of walks through the Chilterns Area Chilterns Country Visitor Information of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It mainly follows rights of way most of which are waymarked as follows: is a village with no toilets or shops. There are two pubs and a coffee shop where you can get yellow arrow' Footpaths (walkers only) refreshment/use toilets on the walk. Pubs serve food lunchtimes (12-2) and evenings (after 6). 'blue arrow' Bridleways (horseriders, cyclists and walkers) Garden Centre, Studley Green (01494 485965). Red Kite Walks ‘red arrow' Byways (open to all traffic) Coffee shop open seven days 10.30am – 4pm. ‘purple arrow’ Restricted Byway (horseriders, cyclists, Three Horseshoes Pub, (01494 483273). Open lunchtimes & eves. walkers and non-mechanically propelled vehicles). Please be considerate in the countryside The Crown, Radnage (01494 482301). Keep to public rights of way, and leave farm gates as you Dashwood Arms, Piddington (01494 881330). find them. Open lunchtimes & eves. Please keep your dogs under control.

For details of places to stay, visitor attractions or other To download this and other Chilterns walks and rides leaflets Chiltern walks and rides contact Wycombe Tourist Information Centre 01494 421892 or visit www.chilternsaonb/accivities.asp or call 01844 355504 www.visitbuckinghamshire.org or buy Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 171 and make your own walk www.ordsvy.gov.uk

How to get to the start The were designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1965. This is in recognition that the Chilterns countryside is amongst the finest in England and You can start the walks from the garden centre on the A40 Wales. The Chilterns Conservation Board is the body charged in Studley Green, between and with protecting the AONB. www.chilternsaonb.org. , Bucks. You can also start the walks from the pubs in Radnage or Piddington. The Chiltern Society is a charity working to protect and promote the chilterns. To join or for details of guided walks or By bus: There is a regular 7-day service between High to obtain footpath maps call 01494 771250 or Wycombe and Stokenchurch which calls at Studley Green. www.chilternsociety.org.uk. Call Traveline 0871 200 22 33 or www.buckscc.gov.uk for times. This leaflet has been produced by © Chilterns Conservation Board, 2010, with the support of: By cycle: There is cycle parking at the Three Horseshoes pub in Radnage. Medium Walks: 4½ or 5½ miles Parking: You can park at the garden centre, but note the CONSERVATION BOARD car park is closed after 5pm. If the garden centre car park is www.chilternsaonb.org www.chilternsociety.org.uk full or closed you can use the car park at the community Long Walk: centre across the road in Studley Green. You can also park 9½ miles at one of the pubs if you buy food or drink, but please check with staff before leaving your car. www.buckscc.gov.uk www.wycome.gov.uk Start: Photographs kindly provided by ©Chilterns Conservation Board, Gerry Whitlow, John Morris, Studley Green, Bucks Mike Fox, Tina Stallard/Natural England and Jim Asher/Butterfly Conservation. Piddington Walk Follow the bridleway past Fillingdon Farm and continue Turn left here onto the oddly named City along the bridleway, past a junction with other paths by a Road and after 80m turn right onto a footpath Distance: 4½ miles, allow 2½ to 3 hours small wood, and along the right hand side of a hedge towards by a war memorial. (For refreshments at The the corner of the next wood. Crown continue along the road a short distance Access Information: No stiles, kissing gates or steps. Paths and the pub is on the right. Follow this path for muddy in places after wet weather. Mainly gentle slopes At the edge of the wood follow the bridleway left along 500m initially gently downhill and later more steeply with one steeper uphill slope for 50m. In dry weather it is the edge of a field with a hedge on your left. Continue to downhill as the path bears left through a wood. Near suitable for all terrain pushchairs. follow the bridleway through a wood, using the white arrows the end of the wood at a junction with a bridleway on the trees to guide you. from the left continue ahead more gently downhill. From the Garden Centre, cross the main road and turn After a further 100m bear right on to a gravel track giving right towards West Wycombe. In 300m turn left 50 metres before you reach a road there is an arrow on a access to a house on the left, to eventually reach the road through the gate of a house called Nutfield tree on the left pointing up the hill to the right. The footpath at . (For refreshments at the Three Horseshoes and go down the footpath (if you arrive by itself is 15 metres past the tree on the right and you should Pub continue straight up Horseshoe Road for 100m to the bus, cross the road and turn left, the path is follow this up the hill. pub on the right. Leaving the pub turn right onto the road 50m in the direction of Stokenchurch). enjoying the fine views of the Radnage valley through gaps At the top of the hill bear left in the direction of the in the hedge on the right for 400m until the main walk is Where the footpath forks, bear left and arrow and continue along the fence until you reach a wood rejoined where a footpath marked Chiltern Way joins on carry on down the path between a hedge and yard. Turn right through a gap in the fence into the Wycliffe the left as the road starts to go downhill). a fence. Turn left when you reach the road and Centre, past the first of the huts and keep to the left of the in 10 metres turn right still on a tarmac road. beech hedge, past the water tower and across the main tarmac To continue the main walk from Bennett End turn left entrance road. Continue along the track until you reach a onto Grange Farm Road and after 550m turn right when it After 100m the tarmac surface ends but keep straight bridleway, turn left and follow this until you reach the A40. splits, towards Grange Farm. Just before the farm turn on and go through the left metal gate. At the end of the right onto a footpath (signposted Chiltern Way). Follow the path go through the gate into . Turn right Cross the A40 and turn left towards Stokenchurch for path up the hill, past the telegraph pole and through the onto the bridleway with the information board on your about 400m to the Garden Centre. gap in the hedge at the top. left. The bridleway continues through the wood for about 1 mile, eventually becoming a track. Continue to follow the Chiltern Way (sign after 20m RadnageWalk to right) crossing a small tarmac lane. Veer right down a (In winter the bridleway is muddy, to avoid this there is a tarmac drive, past Andridge Farm buildings and cottages permissive footpath to the right, opposite the information Distance: 5½ miles, allow 3 to 3½ hours and a line of conifers. Bear left until you reach the road, board and this almost immediately bears left. Follow the then turn left and follow the road to the junction. path when it bears down left, through a gap in the fence, Access Information: 2 stiles, several steep uphill slopes, paths marked by two white topped posts, and then go uphill on likely to be muddy in winter and slippery when wet. Then turn left along another road. After 50m turn the other side of the bridleway, continuing until it joins the right, along the drive of Kirk Stile house, and follow the main bridleway further on.) From the Garden Centre, cross the A40 and turn left footpath, right, towards the church, across the road and towards Stokenchurch. After about 100m turn right onto the into the churchyard. After you leave the wood follow the track around to footpath and head diagonally right across the field towards the left and then straight on past the corner of the wood. Follow the path through the wood, Cross the churchyard towards the back and over a Ham Farm to the A40. indicated by the white arrows on the trees, until you reach the stone stile in the wall and follow the Chiltern Way across Cross the road (take care!) lane. two fields. When the path splits, bear right (leaving the and with the Dashwood Arms Chiltern Way) and aim for the right hand side of the wood. pub on your left go up Cross the road bearing slightly right and take the drive Follow the path between the field and the wood, then Chipps Lane for before the house. When the drive bears right to garages after the wood continue to follow the path along the slope 20 metres and take continue ahead on a narrow footpath heading uphill. for ½ mile ignoring other paths. Eventually there is a the bridleway Continue as the path runs mainly between fences and hedges waymark where the path leaves the field edge and climbs to the right. for about 300m until a gravel track is reached giving access to up another steep hill towards Ridge. When you a house on the right. Cross the track and follow the fenced reach the junction with a bridleway turn right onto the footpath to the right between trees until the path drops bridleway back down into the valley until you reach the downhill to reach a junction of footpaths and bridleways at road at the bottom. the end of a tarmac road. Bear left onto the road and follow it for nearly 300m until Green Lane is reached on the left. Walk Turn left along the road and then turn right after the full length of Green Lane for 700m to a T junction. 350m onto the footpath (ignoring the bridleway before this). At the end of the footpath you reach a road. Turn left Piddington Walk along the road for 50m then turn right onto a footpath Key Radnage Walk Public House Bus Stop Garden Centre through a gate, before Ashridge Farm drive. Cross the field and head for the right hand end of the large barn. Pass 4 Features of interest through the gate , marked with an arrow, and straight on past the pond and down the track, through the farmyard. Carry on across the next field between the hedge and the 1 fence passing through two gates into a sunken path into Bottom Wood. Carry on downhill though Bottom Wood 1km 0 until you meet the main bridleway. Turn right and follow 0 0.5mile the bridleway. Leave the wood bearing left through a gate, Radnage along a wide path between two fields and through another gate at the end.

Turn sharp left uphill at the side of a house called Two Bennett End Ways. After 50m, opposite a cottage called The Cottage there is a gap in the hedge on the right. Go through it and follow the path across a tarmac road and between the gardens of two houses. You will come out on to the A40 through the gate of a house called Nutfield. Turn right along the footpath of the A40 for 300m until you are opposite the Garden Centre. Long Walk

Distance: 9½ miles, allow 4½ to 5 hours

Access Information: 2 stiles, several steep uphill slopes. 2 Paths can be muddy in winter and slippery when wet.

Follow the instructions for the Radnage Walk until you enter Bottom Wood, then instead of turning right, turn left and follow the instructions for the Piddington Walk.

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