Places to explore near Wendover StationWendover

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

0.1 km SE

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

4.9 km SE · Buckinghamshire

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

5.7 km SW

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

6.7 km NE

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.

7 km S · 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.

7.2 km SE

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

7.9 km NE

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

8.2 km NE · spans 9 counties

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

9.3 km NE

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

9.7 km NE · Hertfordshire

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

0.1 km SE · spans 5 counties

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire.

0.4 km SW

Chilterns market town at a gap in the scarp where the Ridgeway passes through, with a clock-tower, old inns and wooded hills close above.

0.7 km N · Buckinghamshire

Long-running family brewery in a farm barn at Terrick near Wendover, with a shop and brewery tours.

2.4 km W

The highest hill in Buckinghamshire.

2.8 km NE

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

3.6 km S · spans 5 counties

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

4.4 km SW

Old common-edge inn at Cholesbury on the high Chilterns, next to an Iron Age hillfort ringed by trees.

7 km E