Saturday Walk - Beaconsfield Circular

Length: 12.1 miles / 19.5 km

A walk through gently rolling wooded hills in Buckinghamshire, it passes the cottage of the poet John Milton in Chalfont St Giles, as well as Jordans, a hamlet with Quaker links. Apparently a stile free walk.

Trains: 1007 from London Marylebone, arriving Beaconsfield at 10:43. Return trains at xx:04, xx:42, plus a slow service at xx:10.

Lunch: There are a couple of pubs in Chalfont St Giles - Merlins Cave and The Feathers, or you can get a sandwich at The Deli.

Tea: For tea in Beaconsfield, the choices are:

• Revolution is on Maxwell Road, just as you enter the town (formerly Bar Med).
• Jungs, a continental bakery and patisserie at 6 The Broadway, just past the Waitrose supermarket, some 100 metres north of the railway bridge,
• La Cape just before the railway bridge, open until 5pm, Monday to Saturday, It's cakes are delicious.
• Costa Coffee in Station Road.

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