Walkers who are going to see Giant at the National Theatre
next week may be interested in this walk. The museum is open on Monday 5th
May 2025. You can prebook your ticket
here if you wish https://roalddahlmuseum.digitickets.co.uk/availability?catID=38245
The walk itself even though it is so close to London has
lovely sloping fields, woods and quiet hamlets .
Length: 5.9 miles or 9.6 or 11.5 miles (depending on which
option you choose).
Effort: 3 out of 10
Directions: Use the Chesham to Gt Missenden written walk
directions short option to Great Missenden (5.9 miles). After visiting Great Missenden, there is an
option to walk to Wendover (5.6 miles)
which is a lovely stretch along the West Bucks Way.
OR, if you do not wish to visit the Roald Dahl museum you
can do the full Chesham to Great Missenden walk (9.6 miles)
OR, you can do the short walk to Gt Missenden, have lunch
and visit the museum and return to London from there.
Travel: Take the metropolitan line underground train 10.09am
from Kings Cross St Pancras underground station to Chesham. Journey time is around 1 hour 10 minutes. Chesham is
in Zone 9.
Ticket type: You can use your Oyster card pay as you go for
Zone 9 or 60+ Oystercard to Chesham.
If you chose to end the walk at Gt Missenden the trains to
Marylebone Station are at xx20 and xx50 mins.
There will be a bus replacement service on Monday for this route up
to Amersham from where you can take the Metropolitan line train back to London.
You will have to buy a ticket to cover
you from Gt Missenden to Amersham.
Trains from Wendover are at: 16.10; 16.40; 17.00; 17.10;
17.40; 18.00 and so on. Note: the 16.40
and 18.00 require 2 changes via Aylesbury and go to Marylebone. There is a rail replacement bus service to
Aylesbury
Lunch: The Nags Head in Gt Missenden https://www.nagsheadbucks.com/ please
book if intending to eat here.
The Cross Keys: https://crosskeysgreatmissenden.co.uk/
suggest we prebook if intending to eat here.
Directions: For walk directions, map and GPX click here.
A GPX for the Wendover extension is here.
https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/chesham-to-great-missenden/index.html
T=2.4
2 comments:
Thank you for posting this walk.
Great Missenden was home to Roald Dahl for 36 years until his death in 1990. He wrote all of his children’s books and many of his adult short stories in the Writing Hut he had built in his garden. Many of Roald Dahl’s stories are based in, or inspired by, the surrounding area.
The Roald Dahl museum has produced two leaflets to help you to explore the local area and point out key sights that relate to Roald Dahl’s books and life.
(1) The Village Trail leaflet will lead you to Danny’s dad’s petrol pumps (from Danny, the Champion of the World), the house that was the inspiration for Sophie’s orphanage in The BFG, Matilda’s library and Roald Dahl’s grave.
(2) The Countryside Trail leaflet explores some of the Chiltern countryside that Roald Dahl loved. Visit Angling Spring Wood, said to be the inspiration for Fantastic Mr Fox.
You can find these leaflets in the link below. Enjoy the walk.
https://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Roald-Dahl-Museum-village-trail.pdf
https://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Roald-Dahl-countryside-trail.pdf
N=9 walked together in the morning until point 5 in the instruction, then 3 went off for a shorter version of the short cut passing through some lovely woods to the Nags Head for lunch at Great Missenden. The food was delicious and came in reasonable time. After lunch, we went to The Raold Dahl museum, a real treat even for adults, lots of stories about Raold when he was a boy and young adult, his family and upbringing and how his early life inspired him in his writing. Some of the things that was in his early life appeared in his books. The museum also moved his writing hut in his garden where he wrote most of his children’s books to the museum with content and display exactly as he left them. Can you believe it, he wrote everything in an arm chair on a board which was held like a table top in between the arms! No back or neck aches I hope! Inside museum, we met another later riser who visited his friend in Chesham beforehand. Four of us then did the Raold Dahl town walk which still have some of the buildings described in his books and visited his grave and several giant footprints leading to his memorial. We were planning to walk Raold’s favourite woodland but by then it was close to 5pm, tea was calling…. After the tea break, four of us caught 5:20pm bus to Amersham. A very interesting day out, nice countryside, learned a lot, some exercise in good company but not too knackered, what more can one wants….
Whilst we were looking for the Church, we met 4 out of 5 who did the full walk Chesham to Great Missenden. They just arrived. There were 3 new people in this group. I hope they did not feel we abandoned them. we greeted and departed. Perhaps someone in this group could tell their story.
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