Chiltern Way

On the Chiltern Way near Wandon End, Hertfordshire

The Chiltern Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in the Chiltern Hills, in a loop 134 miles long with additional extensions. It aims to explore the best of the Chilterns, along the whole length of the range. The path was created by the Chiltern Society as a millennium project.

The route

The Chiltern Way has three elements:

• The main trail, a band 134 miles long, reaching from Ewelme in Oxfordshire, north-east to Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire and back again;
• The Berkshire Loop (28 miles; Oxfordshire; Berkshire; Buckinghamshire)
• The Northern Extension (22 miles; Hertfordshire; Bedfordshire)
• The Southern Extension (25 miles; Oxfordshire)

With the three extensions, the length of the while Chiltern Way adds up to 187 miles.

The main route is circular and runs through the Chilterns in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, meandering through the hills (which are a designated 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty'). It visits many of the villages and towns of the hills.

The Chiltern Way Berkshire Loop is the only part of the route which runs south of the Thames for part of the way.

Chilterns such as Chalfont St Giles, Marlow and others.

Sections of the Chiltern Way also form part of the Hertfordshire Border Walk, and (including part of the Berkshire Loop) of the Buckinghamshire Way.

See also

• Chiltern Cycleway
• Buckinghamshire Way
• Hertfordshire Border Walk

Outside links

• Chiltern Society: The Chiltern Way
• The Chiltern Way (with map) on WildþingUK
• Chilterns AONB website - The Chiltern Way
• On 'Pete's Walks':
  • The Chiltern Way
• Journal of the Chiltern Way

Books

• Moon, Nick (2017). The Chiltern Way and Chiltern Way Extensions.