Classic Chilterns: Chesham Circular or Chesham to Amersham (Book 2 Walk 4/Book 1 Walk Combo 5) t=2.4
Distance: For the Chesham Circular via The Lee -- 10 miles/16.1
km
For Chesham to Amersham –
approximately 16 miles/25.7 km
Difficulty: 3 out of 10 for Chesham circuit and 5 out of
10 for Amersham ending
Train: Take the 9:45ish
AM Chesham bound Metropolitan
Line from Baker Street, arriving at Chesham at 10:49. Return tube
trains are twice an hour from Chesham (28 and 58 past the hour) and Amersham
(20 and 50 minutes past the hour).
Desperate times call for creative measures….With
the massive rail strike options are limited – so on offer today are two Chilterns
classics, either a Chesham circular or a longer experimental route from Chesham to Amersham.
The Chesham circular route goes via the The Lee, a pretty village for
lunch at the Cock and Rabbit with instructions here. Note I do
not think that there is a GPS file for the circular route via The Lee – so text
will be key!
The Amersham ending is a bit of an experiment –
using the short cut for the Chesham to Great Miss walk, then picking up the
Great Miss to Amersham walk with lunch either in Great Miss or later on in
Little Miss. More information and instructions for both walk components are here and here.
Check the walk notes for post walk refreshies –
though I note in Chesham the Drawing Room is now closed….
Enjoy the walk!
6 comments:
If doing the Chesham to Amersham option, there would seem to be a potential to do a further short cut that eliminates the descent to Great Missenden, and would get you to Little Missenden a bit quicker. That is to say, the Great Missenden ending of the Chesham walk and the start of Great Missenden to Amersham are pretty close to each other at South Heath
Several trains to Chesham have been cancelled. A number of walkers are going to start the walk from Amersham which has a more reliable train service.
Despite some confusion with cancelled tube trains, 11 arrived at Chesham. Some on an earlier train, most on one that arrived at about the time of the cancelled train and two by bus from Amersham. Two of the 11 were just plain late.
I think most opted for the circular, though I heard of one heading for Amersham.
The Cock and Rabbit is a pale shadow of its former bustling self. Hardly any beer (just a barrel on the bar), no cider and only a smattering of customers.
I was persuaded to join two others returning via a quicker route. Strike us off if you dare. Quite a lot of this route turned out to be the morning in reverse.
Weather was w=mixed-sun-and-cloud
Yes, I guess some confusion was to be expected on a day of rail strikes following a day of tube strikes -- but kudos to the n=21 who managed either a Chesham circular or a Chesham 2 Amersham (or vise versa) walk! A number of people looking (and not finding) the posted train due to cancellation (or any other service to Chesham) found themselves by various means on a train heading towards Amersham at which point we decided to start there and walk backwards to Chesham...At some point a Chesham train did pop-up on the boards we saw in passing but too late to organize all off the Amersham train...but one did encourage a number onto the Amersham train....Hence, once in Amersham, 10 opted for the walk in reverse while a few took a bus to Chesham to meet people doing the circular walk. The linear walk worked well, we had a very pleasant lunch in Little Miss where we met the sole linear walker from Amersham and did the South Heath cut across which shortened the distance to 12 milesish and is a very pleasant route -- so worth keeping as an option in either direction. In Chesham, we had drinks in the George & Dragon as the Drawing Room was preparing for an evening music function where 2 of the circular walkers met up with us. Most catching a more reliable 6pm train home...A good day out in w=warm-mixed-sun-and-cloud weather.
Whilst lunching at the Red Lion in Little Missenden and waiting to see if any of the Amersham starters would reach there before I departed (they did) I overheard one of the locals say that the Cock and Rabbit had been sold which may account for the depleted stocks of beer and cider. Hopefully the new owners will continue to run it as a pub.
Glad to here that news of the Drawing Room's closure was premature ...
Bill S: that rumour came from me ‘sigh’. When checking details for an intended Sunday walk, I inadvertently landed on a post by a different Drawing Room that was closing and moving location.
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