Places to explore near Amersham StationAmersham

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

0.1 km W

Old market town in the Misbourne valley with a broad high street of coaching inns, timbered houses and a 17th-century market hall below hilltop new Amersham.

0.4 km NE · Buckinghamshire

A long-held family pub in a Chilterns village, The Good Pub Guide's Country Pub of the Year 2019.

3.8 km W

Quiet Misbourne village of old cottages and a manor, its flint church keeping medieval wall paintings, spared the through-traffic of its larger neighbour.

4.2 km W · Buckinghamshire

Chilterns village round a green and pond, keeping Milton's Cottage where Paradise Lost was finished and neighbouring the Chiltern Open Air Museum.

5.6 km SE · Buckinghamshire

Rescued historic buildings re-erected across parkland near Chalfont St Giles, from an Iron Age house to Victorian farm and chapel.

6.2 km SE

Hertfordshire's grand circuit from the Royce Stone at Royston — chalk streams, commons and country houses for nearly 200 miles.

6.9 km NE · Hertfordshire

The oldest model village in the world, a 1920s miniature landscape of towns and railways in the gardens at Beaconsfield.

7.2 km S

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

7.5 km NW

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.

7.7 km NW · Buckinghamshire

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

8.8 km NW · Buckinghamshire

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

9.5 km SE · spans 9 counties

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

3.4 km SW · spans 5 counties

Flint village church keeping vivid medieval wall paintings, including a large St Christopher, uncovered under later plaster.

4.4 km W

Ivy-clad 18th-century dining pub in a Chiltern lane at Flaunden, a favourite walkers' stop with a log fire and terrace.

6.2 km NE

Rambling ancient freehouse at Forty Green near Beaconsfield, claiming roots back some nine centuries, full of dark beams and old salvage.

7.5 km SW

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

7.8 km SW