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Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Wednesday walk Saunderton via West Wycombe Circular - Bradenham Woods, Hughenden Manor, West Wycombe Caves and Dashwood Mausoleum

Book 2, Walk 3 - Saunderton via West Wycombe Circular

Length: 16 km. (9.9 miles)
Toughness: 4 out of 10 


London Marylebone:  10-13 hrs    Chiltern Rail service to Aylesbury
Arrive Saunderton:  10-53 hrs

Return:  15-53, 16-51, 18-02, 19-00 and 19-27 hrs


This makes for a lovely summer's walk, with paths through Bradenham Woods less muddy than in winter. After these woods you head through more woods towards Hughenden Manor, the one time home of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, now a NT property with a good cafeteria  - a lunch stop option. The house is well worth a visit.   After the manor the walk continues to Downley and your lunch pub option today - the Le de Spencer's Arms, which serves good pub grub.

After the lunch pub you cross fields and head through more woods until you come to West Wycombe Caves.  From here it is a short steep climb up to the Dashwood Mausoleum, then through a churchyard and along a long, flat farm track to Nobles Farm which continues on back to Saunderton. Your tea stop close to the railway station is the Golden Cross pub, a very pleasant watering hole for walk-end.
T=2.3

Walk Directions are here:  L=2.3

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This sounds nice😊 thank you walk poster. So long since I did a walk can some1 please advise how do you buy a ticket using a freedom pass (and railcard)? ie getting the extra discount..ta

Anonymous said...

I meant BEFORE, not at the station - where there's likely to be a queue!

PeteG said...

Most ticket machines support 'boundary zone6' as a starting point these days. Use the ticket from another station option. To buy online, you have to use a station on the route within zone6 as an approximation.

Anonymous said...

Thank you @Pete g

Mr M Tiger said...

N=15 walkers, including 2 first-timers, set off on a W=hot-sunny day along a route strewn with wild flowers (wild carrot, knapweed, poppies, ragwort). After Bradenham, your correspondent was shaken off on the climb into the woods. But, ever cheerful, always smiling, he soldiered on to the Le de Spencer Arms. He can report that the Book 2 directions still work. A whole pint of cider later, 11 of the others trickled in. Turns out they’d done a dilly-dally past Hughenden Manor. Those who ate were approving of the quality and service. Then we were off again, across the valley, and yours truly was left behind again. Having took a sneaky shortcut up the hill, I sat and waited with my smuggest expression for the others to struggle up the hard way. No luck. Turns out they had taken the same shortcut and were already ahead. :( I was surprised to have a view across to Bradenham from the ridge. Scrub clearance? Got to the station just in time to not have time to visit the Golden Cross. Needless to say, the others had had plenty of time.