Marsworth

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

0.7 km S

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

1.1 km S

Nature reserve in a former chalk quarry near Pitstone, with wetland birds, chalk flowers and a lakeside visitor centre.

1.1 km E

Walter Rothschild's own zoological museum in Tring, its Victorian galleries crammed with mounted animals from around the world.

3.5 km S

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

4.7 km NE

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

5.2 km E