Hellfire Caves

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Sir Francis Dashwood had these chalk tunnels dug into West Wycombe hill in the 1750s, and his notorious Hellfire Club is said to have met deep inside them. The passages wind some 260 metres underground to a chamber known as the Inner Temple. They’re open to visitors for a charge, just below the Dashwood mausoleum on the hill above.

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

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Dashwood Mausoleum

Folly near West Wycombe

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

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West Wycombe Park

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Palladian house with lake and hilltop follies.

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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.

0.4 km SE · Buckinghamshire