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A view of the North Chilterns
Association / Club / Walk leader
8.51 mi
+518 ft
-525 ft
4h 20
Moderate
Departure from Streatley (Central Bedfordshire)
A walk from Sharpenhoe Clappers along the Chiltern ridge to Sundon Hills Country Park. Cross the valley to Pulloxhill with fine views back to the North Chilterns. Return through the Beech woods cladding the Iron Age fort at Sharpenhoe Clappers.
Sundon Hills and Sharpenhoe Clappers
5.89 mi
+344 ft
-344 ft
3h 00
Moderate
Departure from Sundon (Central Bedfordshire)
A walk that’s attractive at any time of year. The route is quiet and peaceful, with magnificent views looking north into Bedfordshire and beyond. Visit the Iron Age hillfort at Sharpenhoe Clappers.
Barton and Pegsdon Hills, Chilterns
8.29 mi
+433 ft
-436 ft
4h 10
Moderate
Departure from Barton-le-Clay (Central Bedfordshire)
A walk through two of the finest nature reserves in the North Chilterns linked by the ancient Icknield Way track. Fine views and a wealth of natural interest.
Telegraph Hill & Pegsdon from Hexton
Visorando Member4.98 mi
+404 ft
-417 ft
2h 40
Easy
Departure from Hexton (Hertfordshire)
Starting from Hexton this walk on the borders of Befordshire and Hertfordshire includes the attractive downland between Telegraph and Deacon Hills and a section of the Icknield Way.
From Hexton including Lilley Hoo
11.00 mi
+591 ft
-604 ft
5h 35
Moderate
Departure from Hexton (Hertfordshire)
Starting from Hexton this walk on the borders of Befordshire and Hertfordshire offers mile after mile of beautiful countryside with the hilltops steeped in ancient history. The route includes sections of the Icknield and John Bunyan Ways.
Pegsdon and Deacon Hills
3.27 mi
+318 ft
-328 ft
1h 45
Moderate
Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)
A circuit from Pegsdon, through the Pegsdon Hills Nature Reserve to Deacon Hill with its ancient earthworks. Return past a mature beech wood and Knocking Hoe reserve.
Pegsdon and Deacon Hills, Chilterns
4.89 mi
+515 ft
-502 ft
2h 40
Moderate
Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)
This route offers the walker some of the most stunning views in the whole of the Chilterns and visits a number of important wildlife sites featured in the book by Gay Beattie "The Pilgrim’s Progress Wild Flowers and Where to Find Them in The Chilterns." Pegsdon and Deacon Hills were a favourite of the writer and preacher John Bunyan who referred to them in as the "Delectable Mountains".
End of the Chilterns : Pegsdon Hills & Little Offley
9.50 mi
+748 ft
-728 ft
5h 00
Moderate
Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)
This is a surprisingly hilly walk for this general area, being the northern end of the Chilterns AONB, mostly through rolling farmland, with some wonderful views across the flatlands of south Bedfordshire to the north, especially if the air is clear. Most of it is along the edges of/through fields, along grass & hard-surfaced paths & tracks. There are two tree-covered 'alleys'. It passes a large late-Tudor manor house. You will walk part of the Icknield Way & visit Pegsdon Hills Nature Reserve.
Ampthill and central Bedfordshire
8.35 mi
+482 ft
-476 ft
4h 15
Moderate
Departure from Ampthill (Central Bedfordshire)
Starting near the site of Catherine of Aragon's house arrest and venturing into the surrounding areas. You'll see some lovely rolling countryside with views to the Chilterns and across Marston Vale to Bedford. The walk takes in a variety of environments : farmland, woods, an ancient meadow, parkland with Capability Brown landscaping, the ruins of a Jacobean/Classical mansion and memorials to Catherine of Aragon and the men of the Bedfordshire regiment who trained in the park and died in WW1.
Escape to Lilley, Chilterns
5.36 mi
+328 ft
-328 ft
2h 45
Moderate
Departure from Borough of Luton
It is surprising how easy it is to escape from urban Luton to quiet open countryside. This walk is a short circuit from Bushmead to Lilley and back.
Particularly lovely late on a June evening, during the summer when the fields are full of ripe crops or in winter to blow away the cobwebs.
Lilley and the Galley & Warden Hills
5.55 mi
+256 ft
-279 ft
2h 45
Easy
Departure from Lilley (Hertfordshire)
A wonderful walk that starts from the historic village of Lilley and passes through some of the best chalk grassland in the Chiltern Hills. The walk also touches on three major walking trails.
Caddington and Blows Down, Chilterns
6.17 mi
+315 ft
-295 ft
3h 05
Moderate
Departure from Dunstable (Central Bedfordshire)
⚠️Two sections of the walk are closed for work so the walk has been suspended - check back in June.⚠️
A walk along quiet country paths to Caddington and the ancient woodland of Badgerdell wood before emerging at the top of the steep hillside above Dunstable. Enjoy the extensive views from Blow's Down.
Totternhoe to the foot of the Downs, Chilterns
5.94 mi
+246 ft
-256 ft
2h 55
Moderate
Departure from Totternhoe (Central Bedfordshire)
A mainly level walk through open farmland to the foot of the Dunstable Downs, with a gentle climb to pick up the Icknield and Chiltern Ways. Great views over the Bedfordshire plain and Ivinghoe Beacon.
More walks in Harlington
Discover also walks in surrounding cities:
- Ampthill
- Aspley Guise
- Aspley Heath
- Barton-le-Clay
- Battlesden
- Brogborough
- Caddington
- Campton and Chicksands
- Cardington
- Chalgrave
- Chalton
- Clophill
- Cotton End
- Cranfield
- Dunstable
- Eaton Bray
- Edlesborough
- Eggington
- Elstow
- Eversholt
- Flamstead
- Flitton and Greenfield
- Flitwick
- Gravenhurst
- Great Billington
- Harpenden Rural
- Haynes
- Heath and Reach
- Hexton
- Hockliffe
- Houghton Conquest
- Houghton Regis
- Hulcote and Salford
- Husborne Crawley
- Hyde
- Ivinghoe
- Kensworth
- Kimpton
- King's Walden
- Lidlington
- Lilley
- Markyate
- Marston Moretaine
- Maulden
- Meppershall
- Millbrook
- Milton Bryan
- North Crawley
- Northill
- Offley
- Old Warden
- Pirton
- Pitstone
- Potsgrove
- Pulloxhill