Chiltern Walks: Beaconsfield, Knotty Green and Seer Green
Fields near Seer Green
Start & Finish: Beaconsfield Railway Station, HP9 2PJ
Distance: 10.6 km (6.6 miles)
Elevation change: + / - 84 m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): N/A
Other routes touched (cycle): Chilterns Heritage Trail: Milton Route
Pubs / Cafes on route: Several in Beaconsfield, The Lion of Beaconsfield (2.3km in), The Jolly Cricketers (6.8km in)
Map: OS Explorer Map (172) Chiltern Hills East
Links: Beaconsfield, Beaconsfield Station, Forty Green, Knotty Green, Seer Green
From a start point at Beaconsfield Railway station, this route soon gets you into the quiet paths and country lanes of the Chilterns. It won’t take you long into the walk to realise that you’re in a very rich part of the country. We’re actually in Beaconsfield New Town, a mile north of the market town that dates back to 1185. The New Town came with the railways and, with fast regular trains to London, it’s still an attractive place to live in the countryside while working in London. The guidance below will help you navigate but don’t use it as a fully accurate turn-by-turn guide. Always take a map and/or a GPX route and prepare well for the weather and terrain.
Heading west from the station, you’ll cross Penn Road and take a north-westerly direction along Reynold’s Road. Follow onto a series of footpaths crossing quiet residential streets with some very large houses. After crossing Hogback Wood Road you’ll enter Hogback Wood and take a sharp right on a path through Knotty Green. Cross Penn Road again by the Red Lion Pub and onto a tight footpath to the right of a care home. After ~500m you’ll leave the residential area and follow the footpaths through woodland to the A355 Amersham Road.
Take care when crossing thee A355 as it’s very busy with a tight corner for cars coming up the hill from Amersham. After crossing the road you’ll be into woodland again, taking a right after ~400m and a left after another ~700m up a steep, short hill. At the top you’ll descend again crossing in a field into Seer Green. Here' you’ll meet the Milton Route of the Chiltern Heritage Trails and a chance for a rest at the Three Horseshoes pub.
After the Three Horsehoes, take a right at the end of Orchard Road onto School Lane. Following this south until you can take a right onto a footpath just past Vicarage Close. Continue south-west along the path, crossing Long Grove and Longbottom Lane onto Beaconsfield Golf Course. Be careful here as the footpath crosses the course so you’ll need to wait for golfers to play through. Continue south-west for ~1.5km, crossing the rail-line and eventually meeting the A355 on the eastern edge of Beaconsfield.
To complete the journey, take a zig-zagging route though Beaconsfield following Waller Road, Hyde Green Maxwell Road, a path over the railway line and finally Caledon Road back to the station.
