Places to explore near Cheddington StationCheddington

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

1.1 km E · spans 9 counties

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

3 km SE

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

4.3 km SE

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

4.3 km S

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

5 km S

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

5.2 km NW

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

6.8 km SE · Hertfordshire

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

7.2 km SE

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

7.5 km E

Beech woods and chalk downs on the Chilterns edge.

7.5 km SE

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

7.5 km S

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

7.7 km SE · Hertfordshire

A ten-acre garden planted between the wars in the outline of a cathedral, with grass avenues for nave and transepts and 'walls' of trees, a memorial to the fallen.

8.6 km E

Chalk escarpment with gliders and sweeping views.

8.7 km E

Four hundred acres of woodland, heath and meadow on the Greensand Ridge near Leighton Buzzard, with a lakeside cafe and hilltop views.

9.6 km N

Village at the foot of Ivinghoe Beacon where the Chilterns meet the vale, with a big cruciform church, old brewery buildings and Pitstone Mill nearby.

3.6 km SE · Buckinghamshire

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

3.7 km SE

Canalside village by the Tring reservoirs on the Grand Union, a birdwatching spot where flights of locks climb the Chilterns.

3.9 km S · Buckinghamshire

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

4.1 km SE · spans 5 counties

The missing middle of the 'oldest road in Britain', linking the Ridgeway at Ivinghoe Beacon to the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath.

4.1 km SE · spans 7 counties

One of the most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in England, keeping a rare apse and crypt beneath later work.

5.8 km NW

Leighton Buzzard to Gamlingay along Bedfordshire's wooded sandstone ridge, waymarked with a muntjac in a nod to Woburn's escapees.

6.5 km N · Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Cambridgeshire