Watlington

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

0.4 km SE

Chiltern-foot village with a spring-fed brook, watercress beds and a rare surviving group of medieval church, school and brick almshouses.

5.4 km SW · Oxfordshire

Held by one Catholic family for 800 years, where Edmund Campion secretly printed in 1581.

7.5 km SE

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

8.1 km W · spans 7 counties

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

8.2 km W

The non-tidal Thames — 45 locks of managed river between Cricklade's meadows and the tideway at Teddington.

8.2 km W · spans 7 counties