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Photo of Chalfont St Giles, a village in Buckinghamshire, south east England.

© Peter S / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Chalfont St Giles

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John Milton came out to Chalfont St Giles to escape the plague in 1665 and finished Paradise Lost here; his cottage still stands and opens as a small museum. The village gathers round a green and pond in the Chilterns, and the Chiltern Open Air Museum of rescued historic buildings is close by. Seer Green station is about 3km south-west.

More places to visit near Chalfont St Giles

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

Chilterns

National Landscape near The Lee

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

0.4 km N

Photo of Chiltern Open Air Museum, a visitor attraction near Chalfont St Giles in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Chiltern Open Air Museum

Attraction near Chalfont St Giles

Rescued historic buildings re-erected across parkland near Chalfont St Giles, from an Iron Age house to Victorian farm and chapel.

2 km E

Photo of the Grand Union Canal, a 137-mile canal running from Brentford to Birmingham, England.Highlight

Grand Union Canal

Canal

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

5.2 km E · spans 9 counties

Photo of Bekonscot Model Village, a visitor attraction near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Bekonscot Model Village

Attraction near Beaconsfield

The oldest model village in the world, a 1920s miniature landscape of towns and railways in the gardens at Beaconsfield.

5.5 km W

Photo of Amersham, a village in Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

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.

5.7 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.

8.5 km NW