Whiteleaf Cross

Local highlight

A chalk cross on a broad triangular base, cut into Whiteleaf Hill above Princes Risborough.

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The Whiteleaf cross stands on a wide triangular foot, cut into the steep face of Whiteleaf Hill. Its age and purpose are unknown; it was recorded by the eighteenth century and may be older, and a Neolithic burial mound sits on the hilltop just above. The Ridgeway crosses the hill over the top, on the Chilterns scarp a few miles from the Watlington white mark along the same hills.

More places to visit near Whiteleaf Cross

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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

Princes Risborough

Village

Small market town under the Chilterns scarp below Whiteleaf Cross, with a market house, a manor kept by the National Trust and the Ridgeway close by.

1.7 km W · Buckinghamshire

Wendover

Village

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.

6.3 km NE · Buckinghamshire

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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.

7.6 km E · Buckinghamshire