Distance: 5.5miles (9km) Allow 3 hours.

Whichever length of walk you choose you will be rewarded with the sort of woodland experience for which the Chilterns are justifiably famed.

This route gives a good introduction to the diversity of forest types that make up this defining landscape feature. You will walk through woodlands which are so biologically important that they have been selected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

Access Information: The walk is mainly on un-made paths with soft surfaces. There are no stiles on this walk. The route is undulating. The bridleway through Blue Close Wood can get very muddy in the winter.

Route Description: At Seer Green and Jordans Station take the gated path across the car park from the station building. Follow the path down to Longbottom Lane, turn left to the junction and cross carefully in to Bottom Lane.

Take the bridleway on your left after about 200m. Keep to the valley floor through Blue Close Wood and carry straight on into Bottom Wood and near its northern end take the bridleway to the right, back onto Bottom Lane.

Enter Hodgemoor Woods at the junction of Bottom Lane and Rawlings Lane and follow the waymarked bridleway to your left.

Take great care on road crossings. Take care following Bottom Lane. Follow the marked paths to the north-west corner of the wood at the footpath junction with the Amersham Road (A355).

Follow Magpie Lane for a short distance, taking the track on your left to Ongar Hill Farm. At the farm, cross onto the footpath and then turn almost immediately left onto the waymarked bridleway and follow it for 1km to Wood Cottage.

Turn right and follow the path west into Great Beard’s Wood.

After about 700m, take the footpath left, heading south, and follow this through to Beaconsfield. At the end of the footpath cross Ledborough Lane (with care) and continue along Wilton Road, before turning right into Grenfell Road, left into St Michael’s Green, right into Caledon Close and following the footpath on the left down slope to the station.

This walk is courtesy of the Chilterns Conservation Board.

For more information visit chilternsaonb.org.