A mix and match walk - starting with reverse of afternoon leg of Book 1, Walk 10 - Beaconsfield Circular
then switching to SWC 36 from Chalfont St Giles to Amersham
Length: 16.4 km (10.2 miles) Most of the walk is before lunch
Toughness: 5 out of 10 (a bit more when afternoon leg is muddy)
London Marylebone: 09-42 hrs Chilterns service to Oxford
Arrive Beaconsfield : 10-08 hrs
Return
Either
Amersham to Marylebone: Chilterns service at 08 and 38 mins past the hour
Or
LT Metropolitan Line to Baker Street - usually 2 an hour
Rail ticket Holders of Freedom passes and all zone travel cards - probably a single from the end of your pass or travel card to Beaconsfield. The return from Amersham should be covered by you pass/card. Otherwise, it's separate singles.
We tried out this hybrid, mix-and-match walk on New Year's Day 2020, and apart from a disastrous lunch stop, the actual walk worked quite well for a winter's outing with a difference. This way round, on the Beaconsfield Circular, we should avoid the worst of the muddy bits, and enjoy a route alongside a golf course and up through a Quaker Village then a Quaker meeting house and burial ground, before walking along field edges next to where the River Misbourne used to flow, from Chalfont St Peter to Chalfont St Giles. We stop in the latter village for lunch. Merlins Cave, which let me down in 2020, was absolutely fine when I called in just before Lockdown One, and ditto earlier this year, and it's worth a try as the pub-restaurant is large, and quite comfy inside.
After lunch, it is uphill along a quiet road then up through a farm and over what can be muddy fields before we drop down to the town of Old Amersham. It is a twenty minute walk - again uphill - from the Old Town to the New Town where we find Amersham Railway Station for our journey home. Tea stops are as noted in the Directions.
T=1.10
Walk Directions are here for the afternoon leg, and here for the morning leg L=1.10
3 comments:
What time are people meeting for this walk, & are people meeting at Beaconsfield railway station. Sue please reply to sueantell@btinternet.com
Sue, the posted train should arrive at Beaconsfield at 10-08 hrs - so that is the expected time of meet-up, at the railway station. Although I usually / always turn up for my posted walks, this time I regret I will be absent, due to a minor injury I picked up on last last Wednesday's walk. The directions should be easy to follow - I have written the "backwards" route for you to follow to Chalfont St Doodah - thereafter, after your lunch stop, you pick up the directions for the Amersham Circular walk. Enjoy ! I'm disappointed not to be with you on what I consider to be a very nice "hybrid" walk.
7 people got off the train in Beaconsfield, and were met by 1 other walker so n=8. 7 did the ant-clockwise route to Chalfont St Giles, whilst the 1 walker did the clockwise version, and met us in C St G. 4 ate their packed lunches in the porch of the Parish Church of Chalfont St Giles.
3 of us then pushed on to Amersham, but the others remained in Chalfont for lunch in the Deli, and then presumably a drink in one of the pubs (if anyone would like to add information on what they did in Chalfont, please do so.
Plenty of winter scenery and there was much tarmac walking which was good as we avoided mud until towards the end of the walk in Amersham when we did pass through muddy fields. Tea and delicious cakes were had by 3 of us in the Seasons Café Deli and then onwards to Amersham Station.
A nice walk (or half of two separate walks combined) in great company and the weather was w=cool and cloudy.
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