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LCA 10.3 Marsworth and Pitstone Chalk Quarries Landscape
Aylesbury Vale District Council & Buckinghamshire County Council Aylesbury Vale Landscape Character Assessment LCA 10.3 Marsworth and Pitstone Chalk Quarries Landscape Character Type: LCT 10 Chalk Foothills B0404200/LAND/01 Aylesbury Vale District Council & Buckinghamshire County Council Aylesbury Vale Landscape Character Assessment LCA 10.3 Marsworth and Pitstone Chalk Quarries (LCT 10) Key Characteristics Location The area lies within the eastern part of the Tring Gap slightly to the northeast of the town of Tring. It includes the settlement of Marsworth in • Shallow sloping chalk the west and to the northeast the boundary is formed by the southern edge foothills of Pitstone and Ivinghoe. The eastern boundary follows the B488 which also • Extensive areas of chalk runs along the edge of the foothills. The western boundary, which is also the quarrying county boundary, incorporates the eastern shoreline to the Marsworth • Restored chalk pits Reservoir and the Grand Union Canal. under grassland management Landscape character An area of gently rolling chalk hills, that overall, falls • Open arable landscape from south to north within which a large area of disturbance remains on periphery of area resulting from the previous excavations of chalk pits and the former cement • Chalk springs draining works site since removed. Land has been restored to grassland use and off the upper slopes peripheral areas outside the areas of disturbance are in arable. Land restoration and management of College Lake pit has created a wildlife centre. The cement works site has now been developed as housing and an Distinctive Features industrial complex. Those fields on the eastern flank of the LCA are large prairie fields often with well trimmed hedges. -
Views of the Vale Walks.Cdr
About the walk Just a 45 minute train ride from London Marylebone and a few minutes walk from Wendover station you can enjoy the fresh air and fantastic views of the Chilterns countryside. These two walks take you to the top of the Chiltern Hills, through ancient beech woods, carpets of bluebells and wild flowers. There are amazing views of the Aylesbury Vale and Chequers, the Prime Minister's country home. You might also see rare birds such as red kites and firecrests and the tiny muntjac deer. 7 Wendover Woods – this is the habitat of the rare Firecrest, the smallest bird in Europe, which nests in the Norway spruce. You can finish your walk with a tasty meal, pint of beer or a This is also the highest point in the Chilterns (265m). The cup of tea. woods are managed by Forest Enterprise who have kindly granted access to those trails that are not public rights of way. Walking gets you fit and keeps you healthy!! 8 Boddington hillfort. This important archaeological site was occupied during the 1st century BC. Situated on top of the hill, the fort would have provided an excellent vantage point and defensive position for its Iron Age inhabitants. In the past the hill was cleared of trees for grazing animals. Finds have included a bronze dagger, pottery and a flint scraper. 9 Coldharbour cottages – were part of Anne Boleyn's dowry to Henry VIII. 4 Low Scrubs. This area of woodland is special and has a 10 Red Lion Pub – built in around 1620. -
Castlemead Phase 2 3, 4 & 5 Bedroom Homes Thoughtfully
Leighton Buzzard A6 How to find us: A4146 A505 Castlemead Phase 2 Castlemead LUTON Pitstone, Buckinghamshire M1 B489 A5 B488 A418 A1081 Pitstone Directions from the M1 J11 Aylesbury A4146 Leave the M1 at Junction 11 and take the B488 1st exit onto the A505/Dunstable Road M1 heading to Dunstable. Continue on this A41 road going straight over 1 roundabout. A413 The A505 turns into Luton Road and Hemel Hempstead then Church Street. A4010 A41 M10 Go straight across the A5/High St onto A416 B489/West St. (This road turns into Tring A413 Road and Icknield Way). Stay on this road M25 going straight over 5 roundabouts. A41 At the junction turn right onto the B488/ A413 M25 Church Road. Continue around the left A4128 A404 hand bend onto the B489/High St and go A404 WATFORD over one more roundabout. You will now be on Marsworth Road. Ivinghoe After the roundabout take your first left B 4 onto Westfield Road and you will find the 8 8 entrance to Castlemead on your left hand side – please follow the signs to customer 3, 4 & 5 bedroom parking. ) 89 B4 homes thoughtfully ( High Street d oa Castlemead R Directions from the A41 (Aylesbury) th or Pitstone, Buckinghamshire sw designed and set in an Head south on the A41 heading to Tring/ ar M Hemel Hempstead/London. Take the W Pitstone enviable village location B489/Lower Icknield Way exit (4.6 miles e s t south of Aylesbury). Continue on the B489 e at the front foot of the ld for approximately 3 miles (stay left) and go R oa Vicarage Road straight over 1 roundabout. -
LCA 10.2 Ivinghoe Foothills Landscape Character Type
Aylesbury Vale District Council & Buckinghamshire County Council Aylesbury Vale Landscape Character Assessment LCA 10.2 Ivinghoe Foothills Landscape Character Type: LCT 10 Chalk Foothills B0404200/LAND/01 Aylesbury Vale District Council & Buckinghamshire County Council Aylesbury Vale Landscape Character Assessment LCA 10.2 Ivinghoe Foothills (LCT 10) Key Characteristics Location An extensive area of land which surrounds the Ivinghoe Beacon including the chalk pit at Pitstone Hill to the west and the Hemel Hempstead • Chalk foothills Gap to the east. The eastern and western boundaries are determined by the • Steep sided dry valleys County boundary with Hertfordshire. • Chalk outliers • Large open arable fields Landscape character The LCA comprises chalk foothills including dry • Network of local roads valleys and lower slopes below the chalk scarp. Also included is part of the • Scattering of small former chalk pits at Pitstone and at Ivinghoe Aston. The landscape is one of parcels of scrub gently rounded chalk hills with scrub woodland on steeper slopes, and woodland predominantly pastoral use elsewhere with some arable on flatter slopes to • Long distance views the east. At Dagnall the A4146 follows the gap cut into the Chilterns scarp. over the vale The LCA is generally sparsely settled other than at the Dagnall Gap. The area is crossed by the Ridgeway long distance footpath (to the west). The • Smaller parcels of steep sided valley at Coombe Hole has been eroded by spring. grazing land adjacent to settlements Geology The foothills are made up of three layers of chalk. The west Melbury marly chalk overlain by a narrow layer of Melbourn Rock which in turn is overlain by Middle Chalk. -
Wing Historic Settlement Assessment Report
Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd SETTLEMENT ASSESSMENT REPORT: WING BUCKINGHAMSHIRE on behalf of the Wing Parish Council Neighbourhood Plan Team Martin Cuthbert BA (Hons) AIfA March 2014 ASC: 1612/WHP/3 Letchworth House Chesney Wold, Bleak Hall Milton Keynes MK6 1NE Tel: 01908 608989 Fax: 01908 605700 Email: [email protected] Website: www.archaeological-services.co.uk Wing, Buckinghamshire Settlement Assessment Report 1612/WHP Site Data ASC project code: WHP ASC Project No: 1612 County: Buckinghamshire Village/Town: Wing Civil Parish: Wing NGR (to 8 figs): SP 8812 2257 (centre) Extent of site: Wing CP Commissioned by: Wing Parish Council Neighbourhood Plan Team Wing Buckinghamshire Contact name: Cllr Sarah Roe Internal Quality Check Primary Author: Martin Cuthbert Date: 3rd March 2014 Revisions: Date: Edited/Checked By: Alastair Hancock Date: 3rd March 2014 © Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd No part of this document is to be copied in any way without prior written consent. Every effort is made to provide detailed and accurate information. However, Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd cannot be held responsible for errors or inaccuracies within this report. © Ordnance Survey maps reproduced with the sanction of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. ASC Licence No. AL 100015154 ASC Ltd 2014 Page 1 Wing, Buckinghamshire Settlement Assessment Report 1612/WHP Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................ -
Report on the Trial Excavations at Wards Coombe, Ivinghoe. 1971. B
REPORT ON THE TRIAL EXCAVATIONS AT WARDS COOMBE, IVINGHOE. 1971. B. R. K. DUNNETT. B.A. During 1970 woodland clearance on National Trust property at Wards Coombe, near Ivinghoe Beacon (Grid Reference S.P. 973155), revealed a small but pronounced earthwork. It comprised a penannular bank, open on the south-eastern side, with an internal ditch enclosing an area 50 metres in diameter.1 The site was re-planted and permission was given for small trial trenches to be cut by the Bucks County Museum between the rows of sap- lings in August 1971.2 The site occupies relatively flat ground at the head of a small dry valley facing north-east across the upper and now dry valley of the River Gade to- wards the Dunstable Downs. It lies at the base of a wooded slope, £ mile east of the main chalk escarpment of the Chiltern Hills and the important prehis- toric trackway, the Icknield Way. (See Fig. 1.) The area is fairly rich in Iron Age and Roman discoveries. The nearby hill- fort on Ivinghoe Beacon has been dated to the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age transition, while later Iron Age sites are known from Lodge Hill Saunder- ton, Pitstone, Bulpit Hill, Ellesborough and Marsden, all within a radius of 15 miles of the site. Roman finds are equally plentiful, and in the immediate vicinity Roman farmsteads are known at Moneyburgh Hill and Pitstone, while the course of the Romanised Icknield Way runs only 300 metres west of the site.3 THE EXCAVATION It must be stressed that this cannot be regarded as a definitive report on the site. -
Aylesbury Vale Community Chest Grants April 2014 - March 2015
Aylesbury Vale Community Chest Grants April 2014 - March 2015 Amount Granted Total Cost Award Aylesbury Vale Ward Name of Organisation £ £ Date Purpose Area Buckinghamshire County Local Areas Artfully Reliable Theatre Society 1,000 1,039 Sep-14 Keyboard for rehearsals and performances Aston Clinton Wendover Aylesbury & District Table Tennis League 900 2,012 Sep-14 Wall coverings and additional tables Quarrendon Greater Aylesbury Aylesbury Astronomical Society 900 3,264 Aug-14 new telescope mount to enable more community open events and astrophotography Waddesdon Waddesdon/Haddenham Aylesbury Youth Action 900 2,153 Jul-14 Vtrek - youth volunteering from Buckingham to Aylesbury, August 2014 Vale West Buckingham/Waddesdon Bearbrook Running Club 900 1,015 Mar-15 Training and raceday equipment Mandeville & Elm Farm Greater Aylesbury Bierton with Broughton Parish Council 850 1,411 Aug-14 New goalposts and goal mouth repairs Bierton Greater Aylesbury Brill Memorial Hall 1,000 6,000 Aug-14 New internal and external doors to improve insulation, fire safety and security Brill Haddenham and Long Crendon Buckingham and District Mencap 900 2,700 Feb-15 Social evenings and trip to Buckingham Town Pantomime Luffield Abbey Buckingham Buckingham Town Cricket Club 900 1,000 Feb-15 Cricket equipment for junior section Buckingham South Buckingham Buckland and Aston Clinton Cricket Club 700 764 Jun-14 Replacement netting for existing practice net frames Aston Clinton Wendover Bucks Play Association 955 6,500 Apr-14 Under 5s area at Play in The Park event -
Mark Waters Takes to the Oldest 'Road' in Britain for His First Proper
GREAT RIDES THE RIDGEWAY Riding the Ridgeway Mark Waters takes to the oldest ‘road’ in Britain for his first proper mountain bike tour, accompanied by Chris Juden and Mark Reynolds o back 50 million years and the Alps CTC, who helped secure the right to cycle on bridleways, buckled upwards, sending out geological that we can ride it. ripples that formed chalk downs across southern England. We were left with the A ride of two halves North and South Downs, Salisbury Plain The Ridgeway is cut in half by another historic artery, the Gand a line of hills from Dorset to Yorkshire. The Ridgeway is Thames. The two halves are different in character and a part of this chalky chain and is the oldest ‘road’ in Britain. right-of-way status. On the open downs west of the river Ever since the Iron Age (5,000 years BC), people have used it is the ‘byway’ you might expect of Britain’s oldest road. it as a natural highway. Ancient monuments close by the In the wooded and more populated Chiltern Hills to the route give evidence to their passing. east its status has declined to a mixture of bridleways and Today the Ridgeway is an 87-mile route of tracks, footpaths. The latter spurred the creation of an alternative bridleways and roads, forming a continuous route ‘Riders’ Route’. between Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire and Most of the Chiltern alternative goes under the name of Overton Hill, near Avebury in Wiltshire. It’s one of Britain’s Icknield Way, as the Romans named the Ridgeway when classic bike rides. -
Park Farm Church Lane, Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire
Park Farm Church Lane, Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire Archaeological Evaluation for Archaeology Collective Ltd CA Project: 660636 CA Report No: 16035 Site Code: PFAC16 Accession no: AYBCM: 2016.13 February 2016 Amended 23rd February 2016 Park Farm Church Lane, Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire Archaeological Evaluation CA Project: 660636 CA Report No: 16035 Site Code: PFAC16 Accession no: AYBCM: 2016.13 Document Control Grid Version Date Author Checked by Status Reasons for Approved revision by Draft 21-01-16 JSJ SRJ Draft SCC Final 16-2-16 Final Client review SCC Final 2 23-2-16 Final LPA review SCC This report is confidential to the client. Cotswold Archaeology accepts no responsibility or liability to any third party to whom this report, or any part of it, is made known. Any such party relies upon this report entirely at their own risk. No part of this report may be reproduced by any means without permission. © Cotswold Archaeology © Cotswold Archaeology Park Farm, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation CONTENTS SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................... 2 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 3 3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ................................................................................... 6 4. METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................... 6 5. EVALUATION RESULTS .................................................................................. -
Bierton with Broughton Parish Council MINUTES of PARISH COUNCIL MEETING HELD on Monday 2Nd March 2020 at 19.00 Hours at the Jubilee Hall, Aylesbury Road, Bierton
Minutes Monday 2nd March 2020 2019 / 0126 Bierton with Broughton Parish Council MINUTES OF PARISH COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON Monday 2nd March 2020 at 19.00 Hours at the Jubilee Hall, Aylesbury Road, Bierton Present: Cllr S Cotton in the chair, Cllr G Sherley, Cllr B Dewis, Cllr L Fisher, Cllr B Robson , Cllr J Batson, Cllr M Grieves & District Councillor Julie Ward 7 Members of the public present. 1.Apologies for Absence Cllr A Webber & Cllr Gilpin 2.Declarations of Interest None. 3.Minutes of the Last Meeting The minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on the Monday 10th February January were accepted as a true record and duly signed after a couple of amendments had been made. 4.Public Forum A resident raised their concerns about the Eastern Link Road and the bus services 100 & 150 that currently run through Bierton. Concerns were that these buses are to be re routed through the Kingsbrook Development, a lengthy discussion ensued, the parish council advised that it ha raised these concerns at the original planning stage and at subsequent stages, only to be advised by Barratts that the Bus services that runs through Bierton is a commercial venture and it falls to the bus operating service to run the services where it chooses, the parish council offered its support going forward to in relation to liaising with developers and bus service companies but the resident was advised to start a petition with public support to demonstrate the need and commercial viability of the bus services through Bierton and to contact District and County Councillors for further support. -
ED113 Housing Land Supply Soundness Document (June 2018)
1 VALP Housing Land Supply Soundness document June 2018 Introduction 1.1 This document accompanies the Submission Vale of Aylesbury Local Plan (VALP). It sets out the housing trajectory and housing land supply position based on the housing requirement and allocations within the Pre Submission VALP. It shows that a 5 year housing land supply can be demonstrated at the point of adoption. 1.2 This housing trajectory and housing land supply calculation is different to that in the latest published Housing Land Supply Position Statement (currently June 2018). It takes into account the redistribution of unmet need to Aylesbury Vale which is a ‘policy on’ matter. It is not appropriate to use ‘policy on’ figures for the purposes of calculating a 5 year housing land supply in the context of determining individual planning applications because they have not been tested through examination and found sound. 1.3 The ‘policy off’ approach to calculating the five year supply for application decisions has been endorsed by recent inspectors.1 In the Waddesdon appeal (July 2017) the inspector concluded at paragraph 81 that: “Although there may be some distribution from other districts to Aylesbury Vale, and although what this figure is might be emerging, at this stage in the local plan process any redistribution would represent the application of policy and thus represent a ‘policy on’ figure. As the Courts have made clear this is not appropriate for consideration in a Section 78 appeal and I am therefore satisfied that for this appeal the OAN figure for Aylesbury Vale should be 965 dwellings per annum”. -
Stage 22. EATON BRAY to LITTLE GADDESDEN
Stage 22 - EATON BRAY TO LITTLE GADDESDEN Distance - 13.5km / 8.4 miles Explorer map - 181 Chiltern Hills North Time: 3 - 3.5 hours average time based on Naismith’s rule Total ascent - 173m Total descent - 98m Description - The route is a short stage and follows parts of the Two Ridges Link path, along the Chiltern hills through ancient woodlands and past an Iron Age Fort at Ivinghoe Beacon. Ashridge College near the end of the stage was once the site of Ashridge Priory, a medieval abbey of the Brothers of Penitence. Walk description 1 - Travel down Northhall Road to the A4146. At the road turn right and then left along South End Lane past Southend and Vine Farms to the road. Turn left through Invinghoe Aston, just before passing under the electricity pylon wires take the second foot path right to the opposite side of the field and turn left to the B489 (Tring Road). Cross over the road and take the footpath to the top of Beacon Hill. On a clear day the chalk Lion at Whipsnade may be seen on the hill. 2 - At the top of Beacon Hill turn right and travel along the ridgeway crossing the road and path ahead bearing left ignoring the right one. Don’t pass through the gate but pass around Incombe Hole keeping left through the woods to arrive at a track. Turn right to cross over a cattle grid and follow the track left past Clipper Down House. The track will take you past Duncombe Terrace, Hanging Isley, and Moneybury Hill to reach the Bridgewater Monument (very good National Trust cafe here).