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Photo of Woburn Abbey Gardens, a Grade I registered house & garden in Bedfordshire, eastern England.

Woburn Abbey Gardens© Philip Halling / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Leighton Buzzard StationLeighton Buzzard

38 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 1 is a national icon.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of the Grand Union Canal, a 137-mile canal running from Brentford to Birmingham, England.Highlight

Grand Union Canal

Canal

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

0.5 km E · spans 9 counties

Photo of Ascott House, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Ascott House

House & garden near Mentmore

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

3.1 km SW

Photo of Rushmere Country Park, a country park near Woburn, Bedfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Rushmere Country Park

Country park near Woburn

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

3.1 km N

Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Chilterns

National Landscape near The Lee

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

8.4 km SE

Photo of Woburn, a village in Bedfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Woburn

Village

Handsome Georgian estate village with an elegant high street of independent shops, gateway to Woburn Abbey and its safari park.

9.2 km NE · Bedfordshire

Photo: Ivinghoe Beacon, a viewpoint in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Ivinghoe Beacon

Viewpoint near Ivinghoe

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

9.6 km SE

Photo of Woburn Abbey Gardens, a Grade I registered house & garden in Bedfordshire, eastern England.Iconic

Woburn Abbey Gardens

House & garden near Woburn

Ducal seat with deer park and safari grounds.

9.9 km NE

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Photo along the Greensand Ridge Walk, a 40-mile long-distance path running from Leighton Buzzard to Gamlingay, England.

Greensand Ridge Walk

Long-distance path

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

0.5 km E · Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Cambridgeshire

Photo of All Saints' Church, Wing, a church in Buckinghamshire, south east England.

All Saints' Church, Wing

Church near Wing

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

3.9 km SW

Bradwell Windmill

Windmill near Bradwell

Early 19th-century stone tower mill kept as a working museum within Milton Keynes at Old Bradwell.

5.9 km SW

Photo along the Chiltern Way, a 177-mile long-distance path in England.

Chiltern Way

Long-distance path

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

8.5 km E · spans 5 counties

Photo along the Icknield Way Path, a 110-mile long-distance path running from Ivinghoe Beacon to Knettishall Heath, England.

Icknield Way Path

Long-distance path

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

8.5 km E · spans 7 counties

Photo of Ivinghoe, a village in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.

Ivinghoe

Village

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.

9.2 km SE · Buckinghamshire

Photo along the Ridgeway, an 86-mile National Trail running from Avebury to Ivinghoe, England.

The Ridgeway

National Trail

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

9.5 km SE · spans 5 counties

Photo of Pitstone Windmill, a windmill near Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, south east England.

Pitstone Windmill

Windmill near Ivinghoe

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

10 km S

Everything else within 10 km (23) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.