Sunday Walk: Saunderton to Princes Risborough

Length: 13 km 8.1 miles. Toughness: 3/10

A variant of the Saunderton/Bledlow Chilterns walk, following an S-shaped route to Princes Risborough. It shares the same mid-section and lunch pub but the start and end are different.

Directions: Walk page here. 

Start with the alternative “Finish in Princes Risborough “ directions (these take you over the main road, along the other side of the valley. They cross the road again to briefly join the main "Download Walk" directions). 

After lunch in the Lions, the alternative directions take you to Princes Risborough station. (On leaving the pub, turn right, back down the road 560m to a T junction. Here, rejoin the alternative directions at “In 400 metres at a T junction turn left down the road”)

Both alternative sections are on the GPS route.

Trains: Get the 9:53 Aylesbury train from Marylebone arriving Saunderton 10:52.

Return from Princes Risborough at xx:22 or xx:51. Get a return to Princes Risborough.

Lunch: The Lions Bledlow 01844 343 345.

Bledlow's Lyde Garden is worth a quick visit and is a possible picnic place. The entrance is near the church. Note that the Whip Inn in Lacey Green has closed.

Tea: Following the “into Princes Risborough” directions over the rail bridge would bring you to the Bird in Hand at the other side of the station 01844 345602

If there are any walkers with see-in-the-dark glasses who’d rather take the conventional ending to Saunderton (a walk of 12.6 miles in total), trains back from there are at xx:57. The Golden Cross pub is nearby.

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