Photo of Watlington Hill and Woods, a country estate in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire, south east England.

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Watlington Hill and Woods

Open accessNational Trust land — free to wander

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Watlington Hill and Woods is open-access countryside in the care of the National Trust in Oxfordshire. The Albion Guide charts eight National Trust places in the county; this is one of them. There's more within reach — stop off at Watlington White Mark, or pick up The Ridgeway.

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Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.

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 along the Ridgeway, an 86-mile National Trail running from Avebury to Ivinghoe, England.

The Ridgeway

Britain's oldest road — a prehistoric chalk track past Avebury, hillforts and white horses.

0.9 km NW · spans 5 counties

Photo of Stonor Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Turville in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire, south east England.

Stonor Park

House & garden near Turville

Held by one Catholic family for 800 years, where Edmund Campion secretly printed in 1581.

5.5 km SE

Photo of Turville, a village in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.

Turville

Brick-and-flint hamlet in a steep Chilterns bottom, a hilltop windmill above it, much filmed for The Vicar of Dibley and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

6.4 km SE · Buckinghamshire

Photo of Cobstone Windmill, a windmill near Turville in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.

Cobstone Windmill

Windmill near Turville

White smock mill on the hill above Turville, familiar as the home of Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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Photo of Ewelme, a village in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire, south east England.

Ewelme

Chiltern-foot village with a spring-fed brook, watercress beds and a rare surviving group of medieval church, school and brick almshouses.

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