The Lyde Garden

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Free to wander, this sunken water garden fills a steep wooded chalk combe below the Chilterns scarp at Bledlow, laid out around spring-fed pools and streams crossed by narrow paths and boardwalks. It was made by the Carrington family, whose estate still keeps it, and stays open through daylight hours at no charge. Princes Risborough station is a couple of kilometres east.

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Chilterns

National Landscape near The Lee

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

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Chiltern Way

Long-distance path

The Chiltern Society's grand loop through four counties of beechwood and chalk, grown from a Millennium project into 177 miles.

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The Ridgeway

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

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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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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.

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Abbey · Augustinian near Long Crendon

Notley Abbey: an Augustinian abbey and associated post-Dissolution dovecote

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