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Cymbeline's Castle

Access unclearno public right of way confirmed — check locally before setting out

Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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Cymbeline's Castle preserves the earthworks of a former motte-and-bailey castle in Buckinghamshire. It is one of ten motte-and-bailey castles the Albion Guide maps in the county. It sits within the Chilterns National Landscape. The nearest railway station, Little Kimble, is under a kilometre away.

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Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Chilterns

You’re inside itNational Landscape near The Lee

Beech woods and chalk downland within easy reach of London, laced with old ridge paths and grazing red kites

Photo of Whiteleaf Cross, a hill figure near Princes Risborough in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Whiteleaf Cross

Hill figure near Princes Risborough

A striking cross on a triangular base, cut into Whiteleaf Hill above Princes Risborough — visible right across the Vale of Aylesbury.

2.6 km SW

Photo of Princes Risborough, a village in Buckinghamshire, south east England.

Princes Risborough

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Small market town under the Chilterns scarp below Whiteleaf Cross, with a market house, a manor kept by the National Trust and the Ridgeway close by.

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Photo of Wendover, a village in Buckinghamshire, south east England.

Wendover

Village

Chilterns market town at a gap in the scarp where the Ridgeway passes through, with a clock-tower, old inns and wooded hills close above.

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Photo of The Lee, a village in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

The Lee

Village

High Chilterns village round a broad green with a cricket pitch and old church, often called one of England's most perfect villages.

7.1 km E · Buckinghamshire

Photo of Great Missenden, a village in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Great Missenden

Village

Misbourne-valley village where Roald Dahl lived and wrote, its high street of old shops and coaching inns feeding the museum, the Nags Head and the churchyard where he is buried.

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