Places to explore near Princes Risborough StationPrinces Risborough

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

0.3 km SE

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

2.5 km NE

Hexagonal flint-walled roofless mausoleum crowning West Wycombe Hill beside St Lawrence's golden ball, built for the Dashwood family.

8.3 km S

Network of chalk tunnels dug into West Wycombe hill for Sir Francis Dashwood's Hellfire Club, running some 260 metres underground.

8.5 km S

Palladian house with lake and hilltop follies.

8.8 km S

National Trust village of a single old street below West Wycombe Park, the Dashwood mausoleum and golden-balled church crowning the hill above the Hellfire Caves.

8.9 km S · Buckinghamshire

Disraeli's red-brick country home and garden.

9.1 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.

9.4 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.

9.6 km E

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

0.6 km SE · spans 5 counties

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

0.9 km S · spans 5 counties

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.

0.9 km NE · Buckinghamshire

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

1 km NE

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.

2.2 km W · Buckinghamshire

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

2.2 km W

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

2.4 km W

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxfordshire.

3.4 km SW

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

3.9 km NE