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The Nags Head

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Roald Dahl lived at Great Missenden for decades, and the Nags Head, on the London Road, was his local — details from it are said to have found their way into his books. It’s a dining pub with rooms today. The Roald Dahl Museum is in the village centre, and the station is about 1.5km north-west.

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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 of Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, a visitor attraction near Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre

Attraction near Great Missenden

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

1.2 km N

Photo of Great Missenden, a village in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Great Missenden

Village

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.

1.4 km NW · Buckinghamshire

Photo of The Crown Inn, a pub near Little Missenden in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

The Crown Inn

Pub near Little Missenden

A long-held family pub in a Chilterns village, The Good Pub Guide's Country Pub of the Year 2019.

2.9 km SE

Photo of Hughenden, a house & garden near West Wycombe in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Hughenden

House & garden near West Wycombe

Disraeli's red-brick country home and garden.

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Amersham

Village

Old market town in the Misbourne valley with a broad high street of coaching inns, timbered houses and a 17th-century market hall below hilltop new Amersham.

6.9 km E · Buckinghamshire