Chequers Challenge Walk
A 21-mile long-distance walk in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire featuring the Prime Minister’s country residence in the Chiltern Hills. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SP 925 114
Distance: 21 miles (34 km)
Time: 8–10 hours
Duration: 1 day
Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (1:25,000):
181 Chiltern Hills North, Aylesbury, Berkhamsted and Chesham
Summary
The Chequers Challenge Walk is a walking route in the Chiltern Hills named after the country house of the British Prime Minister. The walk begins and ends in Tring, following sections of other long-distance paths along its course, including the Aylesbury Ring, South Bucks Way, the Ridgeway, Chiltern Link, and Icknield Way. Places visited during the walk include Astonhill Coppice, Wendover Woods, Wendover, Butler’s Cross, Ellesborough, Cymbeline’s Castle (motte and bailey), Beacon Hill, Wharley Wood, Goodmerhill Wood, Lodge Hill, Coombe Hill, Bacombe Hill, Kingsash, Baldwin’s Wood, St Leonard’s, Buckland Wood, Pavis Wood, Hastoe, and Tring Park.