Monday Walk: Gerrards Cross to Cookham with added Beer Festival

Gerrards Cross to Cookham with optional Burnham Beeches detour

9.6 miles 15.4 km Difficulty:2/10

The optional detour adds about 3 km, 1.5  miles onto the overall length 

Across Bulstrode Park, passing  woods and lakes, then going through Egypt Wood and Burnham Beeches to finish by the Thames.  Cookham is associated with the artist Stanley Spencer and there is a small Spencer gallery in the town. The optional detour would take you deeper into Burnham Beeches with its elderly gnarled inhabitants, bustling wood ants, and, if you can find it, a mysterious ancient moat a younger Mr Tiger helped to clear out. 

Travel  10:06 Oxford train from Marylebone arriving Gerrards Cross 10:25,

Return from Cookham xx:28 and xx:58 (xx 34 and xx:04 after 17:30) changing at Maidenhead.

Note that the journey back from Cookham is on a different line and requires a different ticket. You should be able to buy both at Marylebone.

So that’s a single from Marylebone to Gerrards Cross and a single from Cookham to London.

A travelcard + singles from / to the boundary would most likely be cheaper. 

Freedom Pass holders can return free from Maidenhead on the Elizabeth line.  

Elevenses/Early lunch Even more of a temptation than usual, the White Horse in Hedgerley (01753 643225). is holding a ...

.. BEER (and cider) FESTIVAL this weekend. Just make sure you’ve got your legs on straight when you leave.

Lunch: The Blackwood Arms (01753 645672) is a short out and back diversion from the route. (The walk option delving deeper into Burnham Beeches goes right past). You are advised to phone.

Tea: there are a few places in Cookham High Street 

Infusions 01628 528 537 has a garden.

The Teapot at Cleve Cottages – open till 5.`

There are pubs too - the  Kings Arms 01628  530 667 (suggested), the Bel and Dragon 01628  521 263 and The Old Swan Uppers on the way to the station.

It is 15-20 mins to the station from the High St. 

Walk directions:  here  T=1.40

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