Places to explore in BuckinghamshireEngland · South East England

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

Sublime Georgian landscape garden of temples and lakes.

Rothschild French Renaissance chateau and gardens.

Victorian mansion and huts at Bletchley where Second World War codebreakers cracked Enigma, now a museum of the work and its machines.

Bare chalk hilltop at the north-east end of the Ridgeway, an Iron Age hillfort with sweeping views over three counties.

Network of chalk tunnels dug into West Wycombe hill for Sir Francis Dashwood's Hellfire Club, running some 260 metres underground.

Twin lakes in Milton Keynes with a lakeside park, watersports and a Buddhist Peace Pagoda on the northern shore.

Purpose-built rowing lake by the Thames near Eton, the 2012 Olympic rowing venue, ringed by a public parkland loop.

Museum in Great Missenden's high street built around Dahl's archive and writing hut, in the village where he lived and is buried.

Beech woods and chalk downs on the Chilterns edge.

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

A half-timbered former Rothschild home, with a yew-and-box sundial and terraced lawns.