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Photo of Alford Arms, a pub near Frithsden in the Chilterns, Hertfordshire, eastern England.

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Alford Arms

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In the wooded hamlet of Frithsden, below the beeches of Ashridge, the Alford Arms is a well-known dining pub that cooks with local and foraged ingredients. It sits down a quiet lane off the common, an easy detour after a walk on the estate. Berkhamsted station is about 3km to the south-west.

More places to visit near Alford Arms

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

Chilterns

You’re inside itNational Landscape near The Lee

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

Photo along the Hertfordshire Way, a 195-mile long-distance path in eastern England.Highlight

Hertfordshire Way

Long-distance path

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

1.5 km W · Hertfordshire

Photo of Ashridge Estate, a country estate near Aldbury in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Ashridge Estate

Country estate near Aldbury

Beech woods and chalk downs on the Chilterns edge.

5.4 km NW

Photo of Bridgewater Monument, a folly near Aldbury in the Chilterns, Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Bridgewater Monument

Folly near Aldbury

Granite column of 1832 rising above the Ashridge beeches near Aldbury, climbable in summer for a thirty-mile view across the Chilterns.

5.7 km NW

Photo of Whipsnade White Lion, a hill figure near Ivinghoe in the Chilterns, Bedfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Whipsnade White Lion

Hill figure near Ivinghoe

A vast recumbent lion cut into Dunstable Downs in the early 1930s to mark the zoo below — big enough to see from the air.

8.1 km N

Photo of Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, a folly near Ivinghoe in the Chilterns, Bedfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Whipsnade Tree Cathedral

Folly near Ivinghoe

A ten-acre garden planted between the wars in the outline of a cathedral, with grass avenues for nave and transepts and 'walls' of trees, a memorial to the fallen.

8.4 km N