Exploring the Chiltern Escarpment, Central Chilterns

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Loop Walk · Chiltern Hills

450

about 3 h 42 min walking

Strenuous

15.72 km

Loop

05:00

Graded from its length and climb.

Views of the Chiltern Escarpment, Aylesbury Vale & PM's country retreat. Pass through Ellesborough & important historical, archaeological & ecological sites, including rare chalk grassland, archetypal Chiltern beech woods & the largest box wood in Britain

450 m

254 m

58 m

Scroll along the route · tap the chart to find a point on the map

Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Steep walk

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

341 m

Drop

335 m

Highest

263 m

Lowest

120 m

Which way round

Clockwise: Easy first 3.9 km, no steep climbing, comes down 15% for 470 m midway.

Anticlockwise: Easy first 4.4 km, climbs 15% for 470 m midway, no steep descents.

Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.7 km at 10%+, 0.2 km of it 15%+) and come down no steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main climb: km 7.3–8.3, from 146 m to 232 m.

How the 15.7 km splits

Flat

6.2 km

Climbing

3.8 km

Steep climbing (10–15%)

0.5 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

0.2 km

Descending

5.0 km