Length: 19 km (11.9 miles)
Toughness: 4 out of 10 No steep hills
London Marylebone: 10-13 hrs Chilterns service to Aylesbury
Arrive Beaconsfield: 10-39 hrs
Return
15-57, 16-06, 16-28, 17-04, 17-13, 17-36, 17-54, 17-59, 18-29 and 18-45 hrs and so on
The walk directions are written both clockwise and anti-clockwise, and as Wednesday walkers have yet to try this walk "backwards", let's give this way a go today - for a change - I think you will enjoy it.
Leaving the town we walk through the town centre and up to a main road which we cross to walk over the local golf course. Down now to Seer Green and we continue up to the Quaker village of Jordans. On then through a Quaker Burial Ground and a Friends Meeting House, then up a road and through woodland to the village of Chalfont St Peter. We next follow the route of the River Misbourne (usually dried up) along a number of field edges all the way to the village of Chalfont St Giles, where we stop for lunch. Merlins Cave is one of the options available to us.
After lunch we walk up the main road, passing Milton's Cottage on the way. We head for Hodgemoor Woods to continue through a number of woods all the way back to Beaconsfield. For tea options at walk-end please refer to the Walk Directions.
T=1.10
Walk Directions are here: L=1.10
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n=11 at the station, on a day w=mostly-cloudy-with-occasional-sun Fairly dry underfoot.Skylarks singing over the golf course.
At Jordans, the quaker area seems sorrier than I remember, the Mayflower barn having been sold, hived off, and tarted up. Only one person spotted the large flightless bird as we approached Chalfont St Giles. Readers, that person was me! An emu, I think. Sadly I was so stultified by the endless succession of fields we had just crossed that I couldn't be bothered to take a closer look.
In C St G, most opted for the churchyard. Merlins Cave is operating reduced hours and closed Wednesday lunchtime. I found the others in the Feathers. Hardly time for a quick half and we were off.
And so on to the biggest challenge of the day - Hodgemoor Woods. "Take care when following the directions" it said. (A bit worrying, considering I had lost track of them even before entry). Gulp scary! The others were ahead and I heard that, after some controversy over routes, they split into two factions. I had given up on the directions and was following the green line on my phone, I went a little off-piste but accidentally found a short cut that enabled me to saunter up casually behind the others.
Eventually, and not before time, we reached the outskirts of Beaconsfield. During this perilous traverse of suburbia, we passed a film crew. What were they filming? Readers, get this...they were filming Midsomer Murders. They didn't look like they needed any extras so we continued our trek to the station just in time to miss the 16:04 The others probably caught it.
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