Totternhoe Chalk Quarry

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

2.4 km SE

Chalk escarpment with gliders and sweeping views.

3.9 km SE

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.

4.9 km SE

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

5 km S

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

5.9 km SW · spans 9 counties

Bare chalk hilltop at the north-east end of the Ridgeway, an Iron Age hillfort with sweeping views over three counties.

6.1 km SW