Places to explore near Gerrards Cross StationGerrards Cross

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

4.4 km E · spans 9 counties

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

4.6 km N

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

4.7 km N · Buckinghamshire

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

5.2 km N

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

6.8 km NW

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

9.8 km W

The 'M25 for walkers' — an orbital path through outer London's woods, commons and river valleys from Erith to Purfleet.

4.4 km E · spans 5 counties

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

4.6 km N · spans 5 counties

A country park in Buckinghamshire.

4.7 km SE

Old coaching town on the London road with a broad four-part high street of Georgian inns, the resting place of Edmund Burke and G. K. Chesterton.

5.6 km W · Buckinghamshire

A country park in London.

6.3 km E

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

6.5 km SW