Places to explore near Monks Risborough StationMonks Risborough

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

0.1 km SE

A striking cross on a triangular base, cut into Whiteleaf Hill above Princes Risborough — visible right across the Vale of Aylesbury.

1.5 km SE

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.

9 km SE · Buckinghamshire

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

9.1 km E · Buckinghamshire

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

9.3 km SE

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

1.2 km S

Small market town under the Chilterns scarp below Whiteleaf Cross, with a market house, a manor kept by the National Trust and the Ridgeway close by.

1.4 km S · Buckinghamshire

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

1.5 km SE · spans 5 counties

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

2.3 km E

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

3.1 km SW · spans 5 counties

Free water garden in a steep wooded chalk chine at Bledlow below the Chilterns scarp, set with pools, streams and boardwalks.

3.7 km SW

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire.

3.9 km E

Spring-line village under the Chilterns scarp with a flint church above a wooded chalk chine, the Lyde Garden and a chalk cross cut on the hill.

4 km SW · Buckinghamshire

Brick-and-flint inn on the green at Bledlow beneath the Chilterns scarp, much used as a film location.

4.3 km SW