15.5 km (9.6 miles) 3/10
Described as a easy day out from London, and recommended for autumn colours, it might be good to do this walk before it gets too muddy. The lunch pub, the Cock and Rabbit is open on weekdays again after a closure and has glowing reviews.
Trains: Get the Metropolitan Line departing Baker Street for Chesham at 0949, arriving Chesham 1046, or from other stations e.g. Finchley Road, Wembley Park, the train timetabled to arrive at that time. Returns from Great Missenden to Marylebone at 00 and 30.
Lunch: The suggested lunchtime stop is the Cock and Rabbit Inn (tel 01494 837540), The Lee, 8 km from the start of the walk, serving lunch from 12 to 2.30 pm Wednesday to Sunday. Lee Green, which borders onto the Cock and Rabbit Inn, is recommended for picnics.
Tea: Recently the most popular watering hole in Great Missenden is the community-run George Ale House (01494 865185). On the main walk page the suggested tea place is the Cross Keys (tel 01494 865373) pub which offers tea and coffee. I'm not sure if the cafe at the Roald Dahl museum is open at the moment but we also sometimes go to Matilda's which is near the station.
Short walk option: A 9.5 km/6 mile circular walk back to Chesham is described in the directions. Various shortcuts are also mentioned.
L=2.4
4 comments:
Tube appears to be cancelled. Go to Marylebone and get train at 9.56 or 10.27 to Chalfont & Latimer and change for a connection to Chesham.
They are suspended between london and Baker street but otherwise running from Baker Street. I'm at Finchley Road catching 9.55 from here to Chesham.
N=14 on this walk on a day of W=some-sun, at least in the morning: greyer with spots of rain after lunch, but let’s not mention that. Yours truly caused confusion before the walk by consulting the TFL journey planner and finding no trains to Chesham and suggestions to go to Marylebone: hence my warning to others. But actually the 9.49 left Baker Street just a few minutes late at 9.55. Just as well as I would have missed the 9.49…..
A lovely morning with super autumn colour. In fact later, when I had left the group, I reflected that pretty much everything is now at full tint - beech, hazel, field maple, hornbeams, cherries: a riot of yellows and golds. In the Chilterns at least: it may be different further south.
Four of us ate in the Cock & Rabbit. Their few tables were pretty much fully occupied but they were super accommodating of us at the remaining one. Rather than kicking off when several picknickers arrived to join us for drinks, they brought more chairs, wondered about adding an extra leaf to the table, and were generally most solicitous for our welfare. The food came very rapidly.
All those who stopped in the pub (as far as I know) opted to do the shortcut after lunch. On it we met two of the group who had left earlier and done the full loop. I split off soon after to walk to Wendover for my own devious reasons. Hopefully the others got their tea and drinks (feel free to add a supplementary report). I looked for you but did not find you on the 4.30 train, having had a delicious chocolate cake in a deserted Rumsey’s in Wendover.
An early starter was caught up in some woods before the Lee making a total of n=15 on the walk. A few cut out the loop around Swan Bottom. 4 caught the 15.30 train from Great Missenden. Others may have gone for refreshments. HS2 works still affecting a section of the route near the end.
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