Chorleywood
Chorleywood is a village and civil parish in the Three Rivers District, Hertfordshire, on the border with Buckinghamshire, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Charing Cross.
Chorleywood is a village and civil parish in the Three Rivers District, Hertfordshire, on the border with Buckinghamshire, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Charing Cross. The village is adjacent to the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is part of the London commuter belt included in the government-defined Greater London Urban Area. Chorleywood was historically part of the parish of Rickmansworth, becoming a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1845 and a separate civil parish in 1898. The population of the parish was 11,286 at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Chorleywood
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Chiltern Open Air Museum
Chiltern Open Air Museum is an independent open-air museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.
2.6 km · Museum in the Chiltern Hills, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Michael, Chenies
St Michael's Church at Chenies, Buckinghamshire, is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Oxford in England. It is not of great architectural interest but stands in an attractive position in the Chess Valley near the Chenies Manor House.
3.2 km · church in Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Chenies Manor House
Chenies Manor House in the parish of Chenies in Buckinghamshire, England, is a Tudor Grade I listed building once known as Chenies Palace, although it was never a royal seat or the seat of a bishop. It was held by the Cheney family from 1180 and passed by marriage successively to the Semark and Sapcote families and then, in 1526, to the Russell family, Earls of Bedford, later Dukes of Bedford, by whom it was held for several centuries.
3.1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Chiltern, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Rickmansworth Aquadrome
Rickmansworth Aquadrome is a 41-hectare public park and Local Nature Reserve in Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Three Rivers District Council.
2.9 km · park and nature reserve in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Shrubs Wood
Shrubs Wood is a privately owned, Grade II* listed, Art Deco country house in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England. Built between 1933 and 1934, Shrubs Wood was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff.
3 km · house in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Stocker's Lake
Stocker's Lake is an old flooded gravel pit of approx 90 acres at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, within the Colne Valley Regional Park which is designated as a Local Nature Reserve. The lake is owned by Affinity Water and managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust assisted by the Friends of Stocker's Lake.
2.7 km · artificial lake in Hertfordshire/Greater London, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07The Vache
The Vache is an estate near Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, England. Within the estate is a monument dedicated to the memory of Captain James Cook, the explorer.
3.7 km · country house in Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chorleywood
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 20 km · London Luton (LTN), 27 km · London Stansted (STN), 58 km
- Stations
- Rickmansworth station, 2.8 km · Chorleywood station, 700 m
- London → Chorleywood31 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4–5
- London, Essex → Chorleywood31 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Chorleywood132 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £15–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chorleywood
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chorleywood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Chorleywood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Chorleywood
Chorleywood is 18 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rickmansworthtown in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.3 km
- Three Riverslocal government district in Hertfordshire in the East of England3.1 km
- Cheniesvillage in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Little Chalfontvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Maple Crossvillage in Hertfordshire, England2.8 km
- Loudwatervillage in Hertfordshire, England2.2 km