The Full Moon Pub This is one of a series of walks through The Full Moon serves food Monday to Friday 12-2pm and Chilterns Country the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural 6.30-9pm, Saturdays 12-9pm and Sundays 12-8pm. Open for Beauty (AONB). It follows rights of way drinks from 12 noon every day. Walkers, cyclists and horse riders most of which are waymarked as follows: are welcome and there is a large garden with a view of the windmill and the Common. Call 01494 758959 for reservations. Footpath (walkers only) Bridleway (horse riders, cyclists and walkers)
The Iron Age Fort Walk Byway open to all traffic
Cholesbury is an ancient hill top village situated in the Chiltern Restricted Byway (horseriders, cyclists, walkers Hills, which are officially designated as an Area of Outstanding and non-mechanically propelled vehicles) Natural Beauty. It has much to interest the visitor, especially the Please be considerate in the countryside – keep to footpaths, Iron Age Hill Fort, one of the most impressive prehistoric especially through crops, and leave farm gates as you find them. settlements in the Chilterns. The Fort can be reached from the Beware of traffic when using or crossing country roads. shorter of the two walks in this leaflet. It was probably constructed in the Middle Iron Age (300 – 100 BC) and If you have enjoyed this walk, there are many other wonderful occupied, perhaps intermittently, from the Roman Conquest in walks in the Chilterns: The Iron Age Fort Walk the mid-First Century A D. Visit www.chilternsaonb.org or call 01844 355500 for The area is criss-crossed with footpaths and bridleways and other Chilterns Country walks additional routes for riders have recently been created across Visit www.chilternsociety.org.uk or call 01494 771250 for the common land. It is rich in wildlife, including fox, badger information on the Chiltern Society’s walk programme, to and muntjac deer; birds including pheasant, woodpecker, and obtain Chiltern Society footpath maps or to join the Society. barn owl; butterflies include marbled white, orange tip, and Visit www.cholesbury.com (site of the Cholesbury-cum-St meadow brown. The beechwoods, bluebells and orchids all add Leonards Local History Group) for local information and to the great diversity of life to be found here. downloadable pub walks These walks start on common land. Common land is unusual, as the ‘commoners’ have rights to grazing and other activities, The Full Moon pub, such as cutting turf, though they are not the owners of the land. Cholesbury Cholesbury is part of a civil parish that includes the villages A warm welcome of St Leonards, Buckland Common, Hawridge and some smaller awaits you in this old outlying settlements. There are three churches, four pubs, and a 17th century pub and school. Cholesbury Village Hall was built in 1895 and, as well as restaurant, with open being a meeting place for local societies, is well known for fires, flagstone floors ‘fund raising’ cream teas during the summer. Cricket has been Walk Description: Long: 5m (8km) and beamed low played on the Common for over a hundred years. Short: 2 1/2m (4km) ceilings. Fine cask ales, lagers, cider and wines compliment an Two large working farms remain, but most agricultural land extensive menu. Our chef produces home cooked good has been divided up, usually to keep horses or sheep. Highland wholesome food from the plain and simple to the more Walk Time: Long: allow 2 1/2 hours cattle, alpacas, and ostriches, can also be found. There is a 1 imaginatve and adventurous with much locally sourced British Short: allow 1 /4 hours blacksmith, a farrier, livery yards, dog boarding kennels, a car and fairtrade produce. repair business and an agricultural engineer. Brick making was Tel 01494 758959 www.thefullmoonpub.com Start / Finish: The Full Moon, Hawridge Common common in this area, and the remains of clay pits can be often Nr Chesham, Bucks seen. HG Matthews Brickworks at Bellingdon still produce hand Chilterns Conservation Board 2012 made bricks.
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