North Bucks Way. Linear Walk. A 35 mile long walk starting at The Ridgeway near Wendover and finishing at the county boundary with Northamptonshire

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1 North Bucks Way A 35 mile long walk starting at The Ridgeway near Wendover and finishing at the county boundary with Northamptonshire Linear Walk Features of Interest The North Bucks Way leaves the Ridgeway between two nature reserves managed by Berks, Bucks and Oxon Naturalist Trust (BBONT), Chequers Estate and ulpit Hill. Both reserves contain a variety of woodland (some with white beam trees), scrub (including box and juniper) and ancient chalk grassland (with wild thyme and rock roses). Great Kimble Church is where John Hampden and others signed a document against the payment of Ship Money in 1635 and this was the start of a series of events that lead to the civil War. A facsimile of the document may be seen in the church. Great Kimble was once larger and the remains of some of the medieval settlement can be seen as mounds and hollows in the field west of the A4010. The underlying stone on which Bishopstone and Stone are located is Lower Greensand and it can be seen in houses and walls in both village. Hartwell House is a large stone mansion, built in the seventeenth century and surrounded by grounds laid out by Richard Woods in the late 18th century. Many famous people lived here including King Louis XVIII of France who stayed with his Court between 1809 and 1813 during his exile. Set in the walls around Hartwell House are many ammonite fossils and the date 1855, in kapped flint. The Egyptian Well at Hartwell was built in The hieroglyphics above are said to record its building in the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Originally there was also an inscription i n G r e e k s t a t i n g w a t e r i s best. Two large mounds can be seen near E y t h r o p e ark, both of which are n a t u r a l features, however, one of them, Burn Hill, seems to have been used as an Iron Age or Saxon burial mound. Eythrope ark was created for Alice de Rothschild as the grounds for her house, the avilion which was built in The North Bucks Way crosses a bridge which was built as a feature for the park. The weir below possibly marks the site of a medieval water mill mentioned in Waddesdon was also greatly altered by the arrival of the Rothschild f a m i l y a n d t h e construction, by Ferdinand Rothschild, of a French style chateau Waddesdon manor, in The Manor is now owned by the National Trust and is open to the public from late March to late October. The Rothschilds built and/or altered a number of buildings in the Waddesdon area, all of which carry the family crest of a coronet with five arrows, representing the five brothers who left Frankfurt in the early nineteenth century. Quainton Windmill is a tower mill built in 1830 from locally made bricks. It was the tallest windmill in the county due to the fact that it was built in the lee of Quainton Hill. roduces stoneground flour, which can be purchased from the windmill or at local village stores. The mill is open to the public all year round. Follow the Countryside Code: Be safe, plan ahead and follow any signs Leave gates and property as you find them rotect plants and animals and take your litter home Keep dogs under close control Consider other people Further Information: Rights of Way & Access, County Hall, Aylesbury, H20 1UY Telephone: row@buckscc.gov.uk or visit our website at

2 Quainton Market Cross dates from the fifteenth century and denotes the site of an ancient market or fair. The cross is situated at the top of the green and has an ancient causeway passing alongside it. The large paving slap opposite is where funerals from outlaying villages had to wait for the vicar to conduct them to the church. The undulations at the top of Quainton Hill are the result of stone quarrying. The hill reaches 187 metres and panoramic views can be seen from it. Fulbrook was a medieval village but now all that remains is Fulbroom Farm, which was the old manor house and some evidence on the ground of the past settlement. Near to East Claydon is Claydon House, an eighteenth century mansion house of the Verney family, now open to the p u b l i c ( A p r i l e n d October) t h r o u g h t h e N a t i o n a l Trust. It has some fine R o c o c o stateroom s a n d a d e l i c a t e w r o u g h t iron stairway. Florence Nightingale stays there on many occasions and her apartment can be seen stamed the top of the house. Verney Junction is named after Sir Harry Verney of Claydon House, who was the chairman of the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company. The platforms and station Mastrers house are all that remains of what was once a busy connection between the Aylesbury Buckingham line and the Bletcheley Oxford line. The seventeenth century manor house at Addington was replaced by a new building in 1929, although a wing of the old one still survives near the c h u rc h. T h e r e are large number of Dutch s t a i n e d g l a s s p a n e l s from the 16th to 1 7 t h century in Addington church discontinued though the site of it still remains undeveloped. Many attractive buildings surround the market site, including St. James Church and The Crown public house. The area between Great Horwood, Little Horwood and Whaddon is Whaddon Chase originally a mixture of heath common and woodland managed for the benefit of deer hunting. After it was finally enclosed in 1841 much of the woodland was cleared for agriculture and new farm buildings were erected. Approaching Nash, the North Bucks Way now goes along what was once the western limit of the forest. The earth works near Whaddon mark the site of the Benedictine riory of Snelshall. It dates from 1166 but was in ruins when surrendered to the Crown in Whaddon Hall is easily seen from the North Bucks Way. It was built in around 1820 but was gutted by fire in It is now much restored inside but is not open to public, Milton Keynes is Britain's first new city, taking its name from a tiny existing village. The population is planned to reach 200,000 by the end of the century. The North Bucks Way crosses the city of the Redway system a footpath and cycleway network that keeps walkers and cyclists away from traffic. There is a fine view of the city from the bridge crossing the A5. Wolverton owes its character to the railway works which have dominated the life for most of the local people since 1838 employing more than 5,000 people at one period. The Grand Union (Junction) canal was built between 1793 and 1805 to provide a vital link between London and the Midlands. Nowadays, during the summer, it is as busy with leisure activities as it used to be with commercial activities. The North Bucks Way ends at the county boundary with Northamptonshire. The Canal crosses the River Ouse on the Iron Trunk, an aqueduct which was opened in It replaced a stone structure built in 1803, which collapsed two years later. The lakes to the north-east of the Canal were formed when material was excavated for the embankments. 17 The open space in the centre of Great Horwood, locally known as The Green is the site of a market granted a Royal charter in By 1666 it was described as long since

3 ulpit Hill 5 North Bucks Way Route Aylesbury B4443 Stoke Mandeville Lower Road Fish pond Moat 4 Bishopstone Stoke Bishopstone Marsh Lane Marsh Marsh Crossing North Lee Lane Goat Centre A4010 Risborough Road Moat Little Kimble A4010 romoted Route Stockwell Lane 3 Kimblewick Road Smokey Row Great Kimble 2 Little Kimble Moat Ellesborough Road Cymbleine's Castle Beacon Hill E B4009 Great Kimble Warren Monks Risborough Askett Aylesbury Road A Fort

4 Q North Bucks Way Route 9 A41 Fleet Marston Waddesdon Hill Aylesbury ark er chendon Eythrope ark 8 Coldharbour 7 6 romoted Route Stone Cuddington Road A418 Upton

5 North Bucks Way Route Nor Mar Carter's Lane 12 Quainton 11 Blackgrove Road Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Waddesdon 10 romoted Route Waddesdon Manor 9 A41 Waddesdon Hill

6 North Bucks Way Route Winslow East Claydon Road Granborough Road East Claydon Moat 14 Botolph Claydon Hogshaw Road Marston Road romoted Route 13

7 Medieval Village (site of) h hornborough ounds Thornborough Back Street High Street Mill Mound Bridge Street North Bucks Way Route 18 A421 Buckingham Road Singleborough Nash Road A421 itch Lane 17 Great Horwood Little Horwood Road Adstock Winslow Road A413 Buckingham Road Addington 16 romoted Route B Winslow orough Road

8 North Bucks Way Route A42 romoted Route Calverton Lane Beachampton Mi Ke Nash Road Stratford Road 21 ad Whaddon Road Nash Whaddon 19 Shenley Road 18 Coddimoor Lane

9 North Bucks Way Route romoted Route Station Road Wolverton Road Wolverton Wolverton 22 Stony Stratford A5 Milton Keynes A42 Calverton Lane