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Dunstable Downs Five Knolls Wildlife and Heritage All Access Route, Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate

Loop Walk · Chiltern Hills

100

XP

about 46 min walking

Easy
3.12 km
Loop
01:00
Graded from its length and climb.

An all-weather, purpose-built asphalt pathway takes you across the top of the downs to the Five Knolls and back to the Chilterns Gateway Centre. Note that this is a there and back walk.

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292 m

242 m

192 m

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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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Leisurely walk

Mostly flat, no real climbs.

Climb

27 m

Drop

27 m

Highest

242 m

Lowest

208 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.

How the 3.6 km splits

Flat

1.8 km

Climbing

0.9 km

Descending

0.9 km

Link it with other walks

Stone Age Walk, Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate

Starts here too · Shares 3.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0

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Dunstable Downs Countryside Walk, Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate

Shares 2.8 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 3.3

10.3 km

NCN National Route 574

Shares 2.7 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 1.3, 3.3…

4.32 km

Icknield Way Path

Shares 2.2 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.4, 0.9…

198.87 km

Icknield Way Cycle Trail

Shares 2.1 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.3, 0.9…

235.35 km

The Chiltern Way

Shares 1.7 km of path · meets at km 0.3, 0.9, 1.9

366.73 km

Whipsnade and Dunstable Downs Walk, Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate

Starts here too · Shares 1.1 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.3, 3.3…

7.18 km

Tree Cathedral Walk, Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate

Starts here too · Shares 0.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.6

4.55 km

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