Ivinghoe

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

0.7 km E

Granite column of 1832 rising above the Ashridge beeches near Aldbury, climbable in summer for a thirty-mile view across the Chilterns.

4.1 km S

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

4.3 km E

Four Victorian reservoirs built to feed the Grand Union Canal on the Chiltern edge near Tring, now a noted birdwatching reserve.

4.9 km SW

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.

5.5 km E