Six cycle routes in to Aylesbury About the Rides Off road cycle routes Local Cycle Information The Phoenix Trail Monks A4010 9 miles and around PRINCES Risborough he rides will take you through the countryside and bridleways ocal cycle groups organise regular rides he Phoenix Trail is part A4129 to Thame around Princes Risborough within a radius of 5 in the Chiltern countryside. You are very of the National Cycle Whiteleaf ISBOROUGH miles (8km). Mountain bikes are recommended but o use off-road routes (mainly bridleways, which 8 miles R welcome to join these groups – contact i Network (Route 57). T can be uneven and slippery) you will need a some of the rides can be made on ordinary road bikes. L T using local roads, them for details of start points, times and distances. It runs for 7 miles on a disused Each ride has a distance, grading and time applied, but Tsuitable bike, such as a mountain bike. Mountain Princes these are only approximate. It is recommended that bike enthusiasts will find the trails around the Risborough railway track between Thame Risborough lanes and The Chiltern Society: cyclists carry the appropriate Ordnance Survey Explorer area quite challenging and the Phoenix Trail also offers all and Princes Risborough. www.chilternsociety.org.uk or 01949 771250. bridleways Maps. The conditions of the pathways and trails may vary types of bike riders the opportunity to cycle away from It is a flat route shared by cyclists, depending on the weather and time of year. traffic. If you ride off-road please leave gates as you find walkers and horse riders. The 0 1km South Bucks Cyclist Touring Club: them and keep to public rights of way, which should be trail was established by Sustrans 0 ½ mile www.southbuckscycling.org.uk or 01949 815642. A4010 waymarked as follows: a few years ago and has proved to High Wycombe 9 miles North Oxfordshire Cyclist Touring Club: very popular and ever more so Footpaths (walkers only) www.oxonctc.org.uk or 01235 527628. with the rise in the promotion of Bridleways (horseriders, cyclists and cycling for the health of the nation. There are new links How to get there walkers) Bike Sales and Hire: being planned from the trail in the Princes Risborough By Road: Princes Risborough lies on the A4010 between area, one of which is the new route (R50) which will cross High Wycombe and Aylesbury, situated south-east of Thame Risborough Cycles Byways (open to all traffic) the Phoenix Trail and run from Aylesbury to Wycombe. and 21 miles from Oxford. London is 38 miles away. Lloyds Bank Gardens, off Market Square, Princes 3 Risborough, HP27 0AN. Tel: 01844 345949. Sustrans produces a Phoenix Trail leaflet which is By Rail: The station is 4 mile from the town centre, served Please show consideration to walkers and horse riders by Chiltern Trains, London to Birmingham and Aylesbury available from the Risborough Area Information Office. by slowing down and making sure they know you are services. For train times and fares call National Rail coming. Please also bear in mind that some bridleways Enquiries on 08457 484950 or www.chilternrailways.co.uk can become very muddy during the winter. Sustrans contact details:- Tel 0845 1130065 or www.sustrans.org By Bus: Princes Risborough is well served by buses with Overlooking Princes Risborough - View from Brush Hill half-hourly services between Aylesbury and High Wycombe passing through the town centre. For time tables call 0870 6082698 www.traveline.org.uk There are plans to put further rides on our website for the future – happy riding. www.risboroughaction.org Risborough Countryside Group Information about places to eat, accommodation and attractions: www.visitbuckinghamshire.org i or www.chilternexperience.org Please remember the Countryside Code: - Be safe - plan ahead and follow signs Leave gates and property as you find them WYCOMBE CONSERVATION BOARD DISTRICT COUNCIL Protect plants and animals, and take your litter home Princes Risborough Keep dogs under close control fit for a prince Consider other people. MYOUR &S Visitor Information Town Centre Refreshments / Accommodation Outlying Villages rinces Risborough is an historic market town. Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaways Alscot: Alscot is a small hamlet Cadsden: At the foot of Longdown Hill, Great Hampden: Hampden House, an historic The Chilterns here command some of the finest Crumbs Too café & takeaway High Street mid way between Longwick and the tiny hamlet of Cadsden with its pub, country house with features dating back to the Le Café Vert café & takeaway High Street 1300s and probably of Medieval origin. The unusual Ppanoramic views obtainable in the Home House of Spice restaurant & takeaway High Street Princes Risborough. It is also the The Plough, makes a pleasant stopping Counties extending over the Thames into Berkshire, Top Wok restaurant & takeaway High Street smallest conservation area in the Parish. point on the Ridgeway Path, before the external appearance is an example of Gothic revivalism westwards to Oxford and north-westwards across the Godwins Patisserie takeaway High Street Horsenden: Horsenden is a delightful ascent to Whiteleaf Cross. and is dated at around 1754. For many years this was the No 28 coffee shop High Street Midland shires. Princes Fish & Chips takeaway Market Square village about one mile from the railway station, Whiteleaf: The name of this village is reputed to be seat of the Hampden family and notably John Hampden, LONGWICK Risborough Beijing restaurant & takeaway Church Street at the end of a narrow country lane. The Manor House was derived from White Cliffe, possibly relating to the chalk scar forever associated with the C17 English Civil war which Istanbul Galata café & restaurant Duke Street rebuilt in 1810 on the site of an earlier tudor manor house, that forms the base of the White Cross carved on the hill. many say was triggered by his declaration not to pay Ship A4129 Jaflong Tandoori. restaurant & takeaway Duke Street Fired Up café Duke Street part of which still remains. It is adjacent to the small Askett: This hamlet was a renowned centre for lace Tax to the Crown, an event recorded in Great Kimble THAME A4010 RD Tandoori Lodge takeaway Wycombe Road church. A4010 church of St. Michael, which consists of a chancel built making in the 19th century. Many of its thatched cottages 6 ROAD Golden House takeaway Wycombe Road A4129 Lacey Green and Speen: This hilltop village enjoys Y AYLESBURY Jon Bon takeaway Monks Risborough from the remains of a previous, larger building. are built of brick and flint and have been modernised Coco Tamarind restaurant & takeaway Askett Monks Risborough: The parish of Monks Risborough is sympathetically. Conservation came too late for the old stunning views across the Vale. YLESBUR Kasturi restaurant & takeaway Little Kimble A St Teresa’s the oldest recorded in England - registered in AD 903 manor house which, sadly, had to be demolished in 1969, In nearby Speen, the grave of R. C. Church Public Houses, Inns and Hotels when the land at East Risborough was conveyed to but was until then probably the oldest house in the county. pioneering artist, designer St Marys 1 Black Prince Hotel Wycombe Road and sculptor Eric Gill can be A4010 Aethelgyth by the royal saxon court. The ancient Black Great & Little Kimble: St Nicholas parish church at Parish DUKE ST 2 · The Bird in Hand PH Station Road Hedge still survives today as the boundary of this saxon Great Kimble is surrounded by ancient earthworks and found in a chapel churchyard Church CHURCH 7 ·3 The Bell PH Bell Street 4 NEW ·4 George & Dragon PH High Street estate and the corresponding charter document of AD 903 overlooked by the iron age hillfort, Pulpit Hill. An event at to the south of the village. His 3 LANE 5 5 ROAD · The Whiteleaf Cross PH Market Square is the oldest documented boundary surviving in England. the church that triggered the English Civil war in the C17 is work adorns BBC's Broadcasting he High Street is still lined with 18th century STREET HIGH4 ·6 Red Lion PH Whiteleaf village 1 YFIELD ROAD This land later passed into the possession of monks of recorded by a plaque. Nearby All Saints parish church in House in London and many CHURCH 5 ·7 Plough at Cadsden Cadsden houses. The town is served by Chiltern Railways STREET BERR ·8 Three Crowns PH Askett Christ Church, Canterbury, and from this ecclesiastical Little Kimble contains a remarkable collection of C13 wall buildings and structures on from London Marylebone, Birmingham and The P ·9 Bernard Arms Hotel Great Kimble ON ROADMount association is derived the first part of its present name. paintings. London's underground network. T TT i Aylesbury and is at the meeting ·10 The Pink & Lily PH Parslows Hillock 2 NEW S U M M E R L STRA ·11 Red Lion PH Longwick point of several roads. Horns T P 12 What to look out for! 3 Lane ROAD · Lions of Bledlow PH Church End, Bledlow 13 The Whip PH Lacey Green T R E E Chequers - The house dates back to the C16 but was re- Kop Hill - Between 1910 and 1925, Kop Hill was the Hampden House - see Great Hampden above S 14 Black Horse Lacey Green L 15 modelled in the early 1900s by Lord Lee of Fareham. venue for major national motoring events. The top racing Grim's Ditch - Grim’s Ditch is a pre-roman E The Swan PH Great Kimble Y B E L 16 S Hampden Arms Hampden Common Sitting in a landscaped park below Coombe and Beacon drivers of the time, including Malcolm Campbell, Frazier archaeological feature that can be traced through the Bed and Breakfast Hills, the estate has been the country residence of British Nash and Count Zborowski frequently pitted their skills on Chilterns from Pitstone to Wallingford.