Monks Risborough

Worth seeing in and around Monks Risborough

5 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.

1. 01
   Chequers

   Chequers or Chequers Court is the country house of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house, it lies near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between the towns of Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 40 miles north-west of Central London.

   3.4 km · country house in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Whiteleaf Cross

   Whiteleaf Cross is a cross-shaped chalk hill carving, with a triangular base, on Whiteleaf Hill in Whiteleaf near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It sits above the road to the east of the hamlet, whose name is first found in the form White Cliff in the eighteenth century, referring to the white chalk cliff.

   1.4 km · hill figure in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Cymbeline's Castle

   Cymbeline's Castle, also known as Cymbeline's Mound and Belinus's Castle, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north-east of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England. It is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

   2.9 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Windsor Hill SSSI

   Windsor Hill is a 61.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It lies within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and it is featured in the Nature Conservation Review.

   2.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Grangelands and Pulpit Hill

   Grangelands and Pulpit Hill is a 25.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cadsden in Buckinghamshire. It lies within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the planning authorities are Wycombe District Council and Buckinghamshire County Council.

   2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Monks Risborough

Airports

London Luton (LTN), 35 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 39 km · London Stansted (STN), 75 km

Stations

Princes Risborough railway station, 2.1 km · Little Kimble railway station, 2.5 km · Bledlow Bridge Halt railway station, 3.3 km

• London → Monks Risborough

  54 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
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• London, Essex → Monks Risborough

  54 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Monks Risborough

  111 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–18
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