Places to explore near Berkhamsted StationBerkhamsted

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

0 km S · spans 9 counties

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

0.1 km NE

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

0.1 km NE · Hertfordshire

Chiltern-edge village with a duck pond, old stocks and whipping post on the green, timbered cottages climbing towards Ashridge woods.

4.9 km NW · Hertfordshire

Beech woods and chalk downs on the Chilterns edge.

5.4 km N

Granite column of 1832 rising above the Ashridge beeches near Aldbury, climbable in summer for a thirty-mile view across the Chilterns.

5.5 km NW

Walter Rothschild's own zoological museum in Tring, its Victorian galleries crammed with mounted animals from around the world.

7.5 km NW

Nature reserve in a former chalk quarry near Pitstone, with wetland birds, chalk flowers and a lakeside visitor centre.

8.8 km NW

Four Victorian reservoirs built to feed the Grand Union Canal on the Chiltern edge near Tring, now a noted birdwatching reserve.

9.2 km NW

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

9.3 km N

A vast recumbent lion cut into Dunstable Downs in the early 1930s to mark the zoo below — big enough to see from the air.

9.5 km N

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.

10 km S · Buckinghamshire

Chiltern market town in the Bulbourne valley, strung along the Grand Union Canal below the ruined Norman motte of Berkhamsted Castle.

0.4 km S · Hertfordshire

Three-hundred-year-old town pub in Berkhamsted, serving Sunday roasts the year round.

0.6 km W

Well-known gastropub set in a wooded hamlet at Frithsden below Ashridge, cooking with local and foraged produce.

2.9 km NE

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

3.5 km E · spans 5 counties

A small Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire.

5.7 km SE

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

5.8 km NW · spans 5 counties

Old common-edge inn at Cholesbury on the high Chilterns, next to an Iron Age hillfort ringed by trees.

5.9 km W

Independent brewery and shop in a Chiltern market town, brewing cask and craft ales in Tring.

7.1 km NW