Walks.
This is where I write about my walks. Sometimes it's just a route I've taken, sometimes it's more of a ramble — reflections, thoughts, or anything that pops into my head.
Most of the walks are with my dog, Elvis. They range from short village loops to woodland paths and other local spots in the Chiltern Hills and beyond. I usually include a few photos, a bit of writing about the day, and, if it's useful, a link to the full route on OS Maps so you can follow it exactly as I did.
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Chess Valley Walk — A Circular from Chorleywood
An 8.6 mile circular walk from Chorleywood through the Chess Valley — following the River Chess past Frogmore Meadows, Latimer Park Farm and Chenies Manor House, through ancient woodland and 800 years of history, captured in black and white photography.
Coombe Hill and The Ridgeway
Coombe Hill is the highest viewpoint in the Chilterns, and on a clear day the Vale of Aylesbury stretches out below it in a way that stops you mid-stride. This circular route from the Whiteleaf Cross car park takes in Beacon Hill, the Ridgeway National Trail, Whiteleaf Hill and the Icknield Way before climbing to the monument at the summit. Rolling hills, ancient paths and some of the most open walking in Buckinghamshire.
Discovering the Chiltern Hills.
Walking the Chiltern Hills has changed how I see the landscape. It’s not a place of dramatic peaks or sweeping grandeur, but one of balance — open fields giving way to woodland, villages stitched together by ancient paths, light shifting quietly across chalk hills. It’s a landscape that invites slower walking and slower photography, where the reward comes not from rushing through, but from paying attention.