Activities Ranger’s Radio Roald Dahl’s Decide who will be the Ranger. The Ranger then Countryside Trail Mini World clicks their fingers to turn on the radio. Everyone Share your pictures on: Mark out a small square stands absolutely still and silent and listens intently www.facebook.com/roalddahlmuseum until the Ranger clicks the radio off again. How A family activity walk of ground with sticks or www.flickr.com /groups/roalddahlmuseum other objects and look many different sounds could you hear? What were they? Try it again with your eyes closed. Is it any really closely at it. More on the Chilterns at www.chilternsaonb.org Imagine you’ve had a different? How has the sound changed in the last Route and activities by Outdoor Culture small dose of George’s hundred years? How will it sound here in a t hundred years’ time? s Marvellous Medicine a E e l l Number Four and e i n Woodland Bingo a you’ve shrunk to the D © size of a pin head. Find one natural object for each of these adjectives: You’re now a mini-explorer in a strange and shiny, smooth, rough, soft, cold, round, hard, dangerous world. What giant bugs and monsters jagged, furry, damp. Only pick things up if you can you find? Tell other people about your mini- know what they are and don’t damage living world and point out the best (and the scariest) things. The first person to get all ten objects shouts bits. Draw a map to take home. ‘Bingo!’. Look at everyone’s objects together before returning them to their proper homes. What other Nature Words words could describe them? You could make words Find an animal or plant you recognise and use the up like the BFG did. e n r o b e letters in its name to write a mesostic poem about s n O r o m b Wild Windows i s it, like this: K O © m i Find four sticks and hold K Speedy © ANimals them in front of you to make a frame for what Alw Ays you can see. Find your Impress favourite view, frame it Chi Ldren and either sketch or take a photo of it in its The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre frame. You may need Write your poem down and draw the thing e n Great Missenden Buckinghamshire r o several hands for this! b you’ve written about next to s O HP16 0AL T 01494 892192 Make a note of why m it. Later you can put the i K pages together to make you picked that view © www.roalddahlmuseum.org your own book of and how it makes you feel. Later you can www.roalddahlstore.com illustrated poetry. paste the image into a scrapbook or diary. Registered charity no. 1085853 A company limited by guarantee no. 4178505 Printed on 100% recycled uncoated paper Road Dahl loved the Chiltern countryside 4 When you reach a 10 Go through a metal gate and follow the public Angling Spring Wood around his home here in Great Missenden and gate, go straight footpath along the left hand edge of the field. This ancient woodland is now managed locally for it features in many of his stories. We hope you ahead into the field 11 You soon enter Atkins Wood , where you take the benefit of its wildlife and provides a beautiful enjoy the walk in this Area of Outstanding on a path following a the smaller path to the left. pedestrian route between the villages of Great Natural Beauty. Don’t forget to bring fence on your left 12 Eventually, go through a Missenden and Prestwood. The wood is said to appropriate clothing, some water and a snack, towards the woods. e have been the inspiration for Roald Dahl’s n metal kissing gate and r and to follow the countryside code: o b s 5 At the end of the Fantastic Mr Fox . It is also home to some rare O turn left on a bridleway. m • Be safe, plan ahead and follow any signs i field, go through a yellow slugs! K 13 When you reach a © e wooden kissing gate n • Leave gates and property as you find them r tarmac lane, go straight o b and straight on into Angling Spring Wood . s Orchard at Andlows Farm O • Protect plants and animals and take your on, past Angling Spring m i Follow the path in front of you along the valley K Apple trees were once far more common in this litter home Farm on your left. © bottom all the way through the wood. part of Buckinghamshire. Roald Dahl’s own • Keep dogs under close control 14 Just past the farmhouse, when the road bends 6 Leave the wood through a wooden kissing gate, garden boasted 70 fruit trees when he first moved • Consider other people right, take the path on your left and pause to following a path gently rising through the field. to Great Missenden, and in contrast to the mean Look out for Red Kites with their admire the view over the valley. Farmer Bean in Fantastic Mr Fox , every October 7 Upon reaching the tarmac road (Green Lane), long wings and distinctive 15 Passing in front of the house, turn right onto the he invited the local children to come and help turn left on the road and left again after 80 forked tails, re-introduced to public footpath back into Angling Spring Wood. themselves to a basketful each. He was saddened metres onto a lane leading to Andlows Farm . the area 20 years ago and Follow the path downhill. At the bottom of the that in his later life, children lost interest in picking now flourishing. 8 Before you reach the farm buildings, turn right hill, turn right to leave the wood by the same apples: ‘I believe they have too much pocket at the end of the hedge on your right to go gate you entered and retrace your money and prefer to buy crisps’ . Directions through a small gate. steps back into the village. The walk is unsignposted; signposts you may 9 Bear left here on a grassy path, Atkins Wood encounter are for other walks. It is stile-free with with a building on your left This is a classic Chiltern beech wood. Beech trees short sections of steep, rough ground, and may be and a fenced orchard are common in South Bucks because they were muddy. Allow at least an hour, longer if you stop on your right. 2 H 1 planted in the nineteenth century for the chair- ig along the way. You’ll need notebooks and pencils h making industry in High Wycombe. The towering S t 6 4 r for some of the activities (see reverse). Angling Spring Wood e trees and dark forest floors typical of local woods 5 e t provide the setting for the pheasant poaching 3 1 Coming out of the Museum, turn left onto the 7 scenes in Danny the Champion of the World : High Street. Turn right down a narrow alleyway 8 ‘I flattened my body against the ground and just before the George Inn. Approximate distances and times Andlows 15 pressed one side of my face into the brown 9 between points 2 At the end of the alley, turn left onto an unmade Farm Viewpoint G Angling leaves. The soil below the leaves had a queer r From 1 to 4 covers 400m takes 8min road. After 20 metres, turn right into Twitchell Road. e Spring Farm 14 e 10 From 4 to 7 covers 1300m takes 25min pungent smell, like beer’. n 11 A public footpath at the end of the road leads L From 7 to 9 covers 160m takes 3min a 13 under the railway line to another unmade road. n From 9 to 11 covers 360m takes 7min e “I have never lived in a town or city Atkins Wood 12 From 11 to 12 covers 350m takes 7min 3 Turn right here, and then turn left in 40 metres From 12 to 5 covers 520m takes 10min and I would hate to do so” onto a track, signposted as a public footpath. Approx 3090m Approx 1 hour Roald Dahl, My Year.