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Sunday, 16 March 2025

Sunday Walk: Little Kimble to Saunderton

17 km 10.6 miles Difficulty 5/10
A Chilterns walk. Starts off flat, gets hilly. 
Directions: here  t=swc.10
In the woods after lunch (Monkton Wood), keep to the track at the right-hand edge – this track is not obvious on entry.
🐎 Option c, a shorter ending (by about a mile), would take you through the Horse Trust sanctuary on a public footpath. There’s  a £1 entry fee to visit. For time to look round, leave the Pink and Lily by 2:30. (visiting ends at 4).
Trains: Get the 9:53 Aylesbury train from Marylebone, arriving Little Kimble at 11:06.
Trains return from Saunderton direct at xx:57. (or change at High Wycombe for a faster journey)
Get a return to Little Kimble.
Lunch: The Pink and Lily 01494 489 857  
An earlier option would be the Plough 01844 343 302  
Tea:
The Golden Cross is handy for the station
There is a tea room at the Horse Sanctuary if you take that ending.

1 comment:

Mr M Tiger said...

N=4 on a w=mostly-cloudy day. Largely dry underfoot, occasional bit of clag. (Hope we’re not heading for a drought).
Poor Mr Tiger was soon lagging behind. It’s the hills, see. He had hoped to catch the others up at the Pink and Lily but ‘gasp’ ‘horror,’. A blackboard outside said it all. “Closed. Sorry for any inconvenience” (Looked like an impromptu ‘closed’, rather than closed ‘closed’).
So next stop Horse Trust tearoom. Getting very close to it and then what happened? I’ll tell you what happened. A group of about 20 walkers appeared in front and practically ran up that hill. (Must have been the Kate Bush group). This meant the tearoom was clogged. Went for a look round the gee gees, came back, still clogged. On to Saunderton. Time for a quick one.
Met one of our group on the platform, turned out they had bypassed the P&L anyway.
Got the 15:57. No sign of the other 2.