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This is one of a series of walks in the Chilterns Area of Visitor Information Outstanding Natural Beauty. It follows public rights of way, Chilterns Country most of which are waymarked as follows:

Studley Green is a village with no toilets or shops. There are Footpaths (walkers only) two pubs and a coffee shop where you can get refreshment/use toilets on the walk. Pubs serve food Bridleways (horseriders, cyclists and walkers) lunchtimes (12-2) and evenings (after 6). Byways (open to all traffic) Red Kite Walks Garden Centre, (01494 485965). Coffee shop open seven days 10.30am – 4pm. Please be considerate in the countryside: - keep to public rights of way, and leave farm gates as you Three Horseshoes Pub, (01494 483273). find them. Open lunchtimes & eves. - please keep dogs under close control.

Dashwood Arms, Piddington (01494 881330). If you have enjoyed this walk there are many other wonderful Open lunchtimes & eves. walks in the Chilterns area, call 01844 355504 or www.chilternsaonb.org; The Ridgeway and Thames Path For details of places to stay, visitor attractions or other National Trails www.nationaltrail.co.uk; walks in Chiltern walks and rides contact Wycombe Tourist www.buckscc.gov.uk; or buy Ordnance Survey Information Centre 01494 421892 or Explorer Map 171 and make your own walk www.ordsvy.gov.uk www.visitbuckinghamshire.org The Chiltern Hills were designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1965. This is in recognition that the How to get to the start Chilterns countryside is amongst the finest in and Wales. The Chilterns Conservation Board is the body charged with protecting the AONB. www.chilternsaonb.org. You can start the walks from the garden centre on the A40 in Studley Green, between and The Chiltern Society is a charity working to protect and , Bucks. You can also start the walks from the promote the chilterns. To join or for details of guided walks or pubs in Radnage or Piddington. to obtain footpath maps call 01494 771250 or www.chilternsociety.org.uk. By bus: There is a regular 7-day service between High If you, or a member of your community would like this leaflet Wycombe and Stokenchurch which calls at Studley Green. produced in another language or format (large print or audio Call Traveline 0870 6082608 or www.buckscc.gov.uk for cassette), please contact the Chilterns Conservation Board times. 01844 355500.

By cycle: There is cycle parking at the Three Horseshoes This leaflet has been prouced by ©Chilterns Conservation Board, pub in Radnage. 2007, with the support of: Medium Walks: 4½ or 5½ miles Parking: You can park at the garden centre, but note the car park is closed after 5pm. If the garden centre car park is www.chilternsociety.org.uk www.naturalengland.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 Studley Green, Bucks Morris, Mike Fox, Tina Stallard/Countryside Agency and Jim Asher/Butterfly Conservation. . Piddington Walk Follow the bridleway past Fillingdon Farm and continue Turn left here onto the oddly named along the bridleway, past a junction with other paths by a City Road and after 80m turn right onto a Distance: 4½ miles, allow 2½ to 3 hours small wood, and along the right hand side of a hedge towards footpath by a war memorial. Follow this the corner of the next wood. path for 500m initially gently downhill and Access Information: No stiles, kissing gates or steps. Paths later more steeply downhill as the path bears muddy in places after wet weather. Mainly gentle slopes At the edge of the wood follow the bridleway left along left through a wood. Near the end of the 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 wood at a junction with a bridleway from the suitable for all terrain pushchairs. follow the bridleway through a wood, using the white arrows left continue ahead more gently downhill. After a on the trees to guide you. further 100m bear right on to a gravel track From the Garden Centre, cross the main road and turn giving access to a house on the left, to eventually right towards West Wycombe. In 300m turn left 50 metres before you reach a road there is an arrow on a reach the road at Bennett End. (For refreshments at through the gate of a house called Nutfield tree on the left pointing up the hill to the right. The footpath the Three Horseshoes Pub continue straight up and go down the footpath (if you arrive by itself is 15 metres past the tree on the right and you should Horseshoe Road for 100m to the pub on the right. bus, cross the road and turn left, the path is follow this up the hill. Leaving the pub turn right onto the road enjoying the fine 50m in the direction of Stokenchurch). views of the Radnage valley through gaps in the hedge of At the top of the hill bear left in the direction of the the right for 400m until the main walk is rejoined where a Where the footpath forks, bear left and arrow and continue along the fence until you reach a wood footpath marked Chiltern Way joins on the left as the road carry on down the path between a hedge and yard. Turn right through a gap in the fence into the Wycliffe 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 Bottom Wood. 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), over stiles and crossing a small tarmac lane. Veer (In winter the bridleway is muddy, to avoid this there is a right down a tarmac drive, past Andridge Farm buildings permissive footpath to the right, opposite the information Distance: 5½ miles, allow 3 to 3½ hours and cottages and a line of conifers. Bear left until you board and this almost immediately bears left. Follow the reach the road, then turn left and follow the road to the path when it bears down left, through a gap in the fence, Access Information: 13 stiles, several steep uphill slopes, paths junction. marked by two white topped posts, and then go uphillon likely to be muddy in winter and slippery when wet. the other side of the bridleway, continuing until it joins the Then turn left along another road. After 50m turn main bridleway further on.) From the Garden Centre, cross the A40 and turn left right, along the drive of Kirk Stile house, and follow the towards Stokenchurch. After about 100m turn right onto the footpath, right, towards the church, across the road and After you leave the wood follow the track around to footpath and head diagonally right across the field towards into the churchyard. the left and then straight on past Ham Farm to the A40. the corner of the wood. Follow the path through the wood, Cross the road (take care!) and indicated by the white arrows on the trees, until you reach the Cross the churchyard towards the back and over a with the Dashwood Arms lane. stone stile in the wall and follow the Chiltern Way across pub on your left go up two fields. When the path splits, bear right (leaving the Chipps Lane for 20 metres Cross the road bearing slightly right and take the drive Chiltern Way) and aim for the right hand side of the wood. and take the bridleway before the house. When the drive bears right to garages Follow the path between the field and the wood, then to the right. continue ahead on a narrow footpath heading uphill. after the wood continue to follow the path along the slope Continue as the path runs mainly between fences and hedges for ½ mile ignoring other paths. Eventually there is a for about 300m until a gravel track is reached giving access to waymark where the path leaves the field edge and climbs a house on the right. Cross the track and follow the fenced up another steep hill towards Ridge. When you footpath to the right between trees until the path drops reach the junction with a bridleway turn right onto the downhill to reach a junction of footpaths and bridleways at bridleway back down into the valley until you reach the the end of a tarmac road. Bear left onto the road and follow it road at the bottom. for nearly 300m until Green Lane is reached on the left. Walk the full length of Green Lane for 700m to a T junction. Turn left along the road and then turn right after 350m onto the footpath (ignoring the bridleway before Piddington Walk this). At the end of the footpath you reach a road. Turn left Key Radnage Walk Public House Bus Stop Garden Centre along the road for 50m then turn right onto a footpath through a gate, before Ashridge Farm drive. Cross the field 4 Features of interest and head for the right hand end of the large barn. Pass through the gate , marked with an arrow, and straight on past the pond and down the track, through the farmyard. 1 Carry on across the next field between the hedge and the fence and pass through the kissing gate, then go over a 1km 0 stile into a sunken path into Bottom Wood. Carry on 0 0.5mile downhill though Bottom Wood until you meet the main Radnage bridleway. Turn right and follow the bridleway. Leave the wood bearing left through a gate, along a wide path between two fields and through another gate at the end.

Bennett End Turn sharp left uphill at the side of a house called Two 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 Long Walk

Distance: 9½ miles, allow 4½ to 5 hours

Access Information: 13 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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