The county of Bedfordshire offers a variety of lowland landscapes from the chalk downland of the Chilterns in the south, estate parkland such as that at Woburn in the west, and heathland of the Greensand Ridge in mid-Bedfordshire to the marsh and fen country of the east. Appealing riverside paths run along the Ouse, Ivel and Lea, whilst the charming villages of north Bedfordshire, with their pretty thatched cottages and ancient churches, are another attractive feature of this historical county.

The region is thoroughly explored in 32 walks, ranging in length from 5 to 12 miles. The routes, all except one of which are circular, are thoroughly described, with detailed notes on the many places of interest passed en route. The walks are suitable for both experienced and novice ramblers and for family groups. Many of the walks are accessible by public transport.

The book divides the walks into three sections of South, East and North Bedfordshire. Some of the the walk locations are: Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs; Eaton Bray, Totternhoe Knolls and Castle Hill; Streatley and the Galley Hills; Sundon Hills Country Park; Rushmere Park; Woburn Abbey grounds and Milton Bryan; Silsoe; Ampthill; Millbrook; Cranfield; Elstow; Clophill; Northill and Shuttleworth; Wrestlingworth; Roxton and Tempsford; Wilden; Colmworth; Bedford; Stagsden; Bromham and Stevington; Turvey; Milton Ernest and Oakley; Thurleigh and Ravensden; Pavenham; Odell; The Colworth Estate; Risley and Melchbourne Park; Yelden, Upper Dean and Shelton.

The area covered in this book is dominated by the chalk ridge escarpment of the Chiltern Hills. The Northern Chilterns and south Bedfordshire are a well kept secret. While other areas and regions of England have a deserved reputation for being excellent walking country, this part of the world has hidden away, guarding its beauty and diversity. Thick wooded slopes, rolling chalk downland, steep hillsides with terrific views at the top, tranquil towpaths, peaceful undulating farmland and sleepy picturesque villages are all featured.

The book presents a comprehensive guide to the best walks in this locality. There are 37 circular routes described, mainly between 4 and 7 miles in distance. Each has detailed route finding instructions, pencil drawn sketch maps with plenty of detail and the text includes background information and nature notes.

The walk locations are: Dagnall and Hoo Wood; Markyate; Aldbury and the Bridgewater Monument; Tring and Grim's Ditch; Redbourn Common; Sharpenhoe Clappers; Great Offley and Botanybay Plantation; Dunstable Downs; Toddington; Ashridge Park; Barton-le-clay and Barton Hills; Cholesbury and Buckland Common; Startop's End; Silsoe; Studham Common; Flitwick; Ashridge Park and Berkhamsted Common; Maiden Bower; Little Tring; Wilstone Reservoir; Pegsdon and Telegraph Hill; Nettleden and Little Gaddesden; Totternhoe and Doolittle Mill; Bow Brickhill Heath; Wellbury and Lilley Hoo; Cheddington; Aldbury; Woburn Abbey; Slapton and the River Ouzel; Ivinghoe Beacon; Gade Valley and Jockey End; Dunstable.

One of a range of 'no frills' local walking guide booklets which admirably achieve their objective of getting you out in the countryside amongst beautiful scenery on carefully chosen routes full of interest. The directions are clear and precise and the pencil drawn sketch maps are particularly attractive as well as practical. This guide describes ten varied and interesting circular walks close to Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire. The walks are between 5 and 10 miles in length and allow you to thoroughly explore the delights of this lovely area.

The locations are: Woburn Park; Woburn and Potsgrove; Woburn Sands and Wavendon Heath; Ampthill and Millbrook Warren; Brogborough Hill, Marston Moretaine and Marston Thrift; Ridgmont and Briar Stockings; Old Linslade and Three Locks (along the Grand Union Canal); Woburn and the Safari Park; Tingrith and Witts End; Milton Bryan, Hockliffe and Battlesden Avenue.

One of a range of 'no frills' local walking guide booklets which admirably achieve their objective of getting you out in the countryside amongst beautiful scenery on carefully chosen routes full of interest. The directions are clear and precise and the pencil drawn sketch maps are particularly attractive as well as practical. This guide focuses on the Great Ouse near Bedford with nine varied and interesting circular walks, mainly about 6 miles in length.

The walk locations are: Souldrop and Sharnbrook Tunnel; Great Ouse Horseshoe and Pavenham; Yelnow Lane and Harrold-Odell Country Park; Bromham and Bromham Mill; Harrold-Odell Country Park and St Nicholas's Church; Piper's Highway and Stevington; Pinchmill Islands and Sharnbrook; Ravensden Brook and Mowsbury Park, Bedford; Hanger Wood and Bromham.

Here is a comprehensive book of twenty five circular walks in this lovely rural area. Walking in the countryside is always enjoyable, but with this book as his companion the rambler will also be led to many interesting discoveries. An appropriate theme has been selected for every walk and a stimulating introductory article sets the scene. Full practical route information and comments are provided plus specially drawn maps.

The walk locations are: Harrold, Odell, Felmersham and Sharnbrook; Harrold and Odell; Harrold, Pavenham and Odell; Riseley; Melchbourne and Yelden; Swineshead and Upper Dean; Thurleigh and Bletsoe; Bushmead, Staploe and Colmworth; Great Barford, Tempford and Blunham; Willington and Cople; Old Warden and Warden Street; Biggleswade and Broom; Biggleswade, Sandy Warren, Potton and Sutton; Wrestlingworth, Hatley St George and Cockayne Hatley; Shefford, Clifton and Langford; Elstow, Haynes and Shefford; Ampthill and Houghton Conquest; Ampthill, Millbrook and Lidlington; Woburn, Milton Bryan and Eversholt; Leighton Buzzard, Three Locks and Old Linslade; Heath and Reach, Great Brickhill and Little Brickhill; Little Brickhill, Bow Brickhill and Woburn; Cranfield; Turvey; Stevington and Pavenham.

This Jarrold-Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Guide makes the ideal companion for country walks throughout these counties. Clear and easy to follow directions are accompanied by detailed 1:25,000 scale maps from Ordnance Survey and specially commissioned photographs. With 28 colour-coded routes to choose from, all tried and tested by seasoned walkers and varying from extended strolls to exhilarating hikes, there is a walk to suit all situations.

The guide introduces you to the area and highlights the most scenic walks. Details are included for useful organisations, refreshment stops and places to leave your car. Although we always recommend taking the appropriate OS Explorer map on all walks, in the case of the Pathfinder Guides this mapping is included, with the route clearly outlined in yellow, so additional maps are not required.

The walking routes include: Ampthill Park and Millbrook Warren; Pavenham; Ashwell; Ardeley, Benington and Walkern; Barkway, Reed and Earl's Wood; Bramfield Woods; Bridgewater Monument and Aldbury; Chipperfield and Kings Langley; Clophill, Wrest Park and Silsoe; Dunstable Downs and Totternhoe; Essenden and Little Berkhamsted; Hertford and the Cole Green Way; Prior Country Park; Houghton Conquest; Berkhamsted and Northchurch Common; Harrold Odel Country Park; Old Warden Park; Sandy and Everton; Sarrat and the River Chess; Sunden Hills and Sharpenhoe Clappers; Stockgrove Country Park; St Albans and the Ver Valley; The Ayots, Brocket Park and the River Lea; Turvey; Peter's green and upper Lea Valley; Ware, Stanstead Abbots and Great Amwell; Whitwell and St Paul's Walden; Woburn Park and Eversholt.

What better way to spend a leisurely few hours than to drive to the countryside, stretch your legs and then visit a good pub for some fine food? The 40 circular walks in this book show how this can be done. Each route, starting and finishing at or near a recommended pub, is between 3.5 and 7 miles in length and takes the walker through some of the most attractive and contrasting scenery these three counties have to offer.

In Bedfordshire there are routes through the grounds of Woburn Abbey and along the grand Union Canal. There is a waterside walk from Broom along the river Ivel and from Milton Ernest there are excellent views of the Great Ouse Valley. Buckinghamshire offers walks with spectacular views of the Vale of Aylesbury and glorious scenery from Clifton Reynes. There are also routes through the picturesque villages of Bledlow and Hambledon. Walks in Hertfordshire include one from the fine cathedral city of St Albans and the small village of Ardeley with its pretty village green.Other walks include the village of Ayot St Lawrence and Hadham Cross with its timber framed houses. All the walks include full detailed route directions and a sketch map.

The walk locations are: Bedfordshire - Old Linslade; Woburn; Turvey; Milton Ernest; Milton Bryan; Toddington; Studham; Thurleigh; Keysoe; Ireland; Shillington; Broom. Buckinghamshire - Brill; Chackmore; Quainton; Long Crendon; Waddesdon; Newton Longville; Clifton Reynes; Soulbury; Bledlow; Hambleden; Downley; Parslow's Hillock; Butlers Cross; Mentmore. Hertfordshire - Long Marston; Sarratt; Winkwell; Harpenden; St Albans; Tea Green; Ayot St Lawrence; Preston; Weston; Old Knebworth; Little Berkhamsted; Tewin; Ardeley; Hadham Cross.

On a fine day there is nothing quite like a drive to the country, followed by a leisurely walk and a hearty meal in a good local pub, café or tearoom. With their Dunstable Downs, Biggleswade Common, Vale of Aylesbury and Chiltern Hills, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire provide an excellent landscape to explore.

In this volume of 20 circular routes, there are walks in the Harrold-Odell Country Park, where the lake is a magnet for wildlife and birdlife; to Harlington and past Bunyan's Oak, a 600 year old tree under whose John Bunyan preached; over a grade 2 listed bridge at Newport Pagnell; and through the water meadows surrounding the River Great Ouse near Tingewick. Other routes offer the walker the chance to visit the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton; one of the country's oldest windmills at Pitstone; the haunted ruins of an old castle at Dinton; the Dashwood Mausoleum at West Wycombe; and Hambledon Lock on the River Thames, where the first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was held.

The walks vary in length from 2.5 to 6 miles and are all based on good refreshment places. Information such as how to get to the start and where to park is given. There are also photographs of sights along the way and numbered sketch maps which correspond with numbered paragraphs in the text, so that walkers can see at a glance where they are.

The walk locations are: Harrold-Odell Country Park; Wilden; Biggleswade Common; Cranfield; Stockgrove Country Park; Flitton - Two Moors; Harlington; Sharpenhoe Clappers; Dunstable Downs; Newport Pagnell; Tingewick; Stewkley; Quainton; Ivinghoe and Pitstone Windmill; Dinton; Great Kimble; Cholesbury; West Wycombe; Burnham Beeches; Hambleden Lock.

This comprehensive guide covers the whole of the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Chilterns. Within this area to the north and east of Luton, the escarpment, here known as the Barton Hills, includes some of the finest and yet least known downland in the Chilterns. While the interior is dominated by Lilley Bottom, a wide valley that becomes the Mimram Valley above Whitwell. To the southwest a more open ridge gradually gives way to the gentle rolling hills of central Hertfordshire. South of Luton between the Gade and Bulbourne valleys is a ridge dominated by the Ashridge Estate which rises to the Ivinghoe Hills and with its mixture of copious woodland, picturesque villages and lofty downs is probably the most popular walking area in the book. To the south of Rickmansworth the Colne Valley and hills offer surprisingly rural walks with fine views within twenty miles of central London.

The thirty walks in this book vary in length from 2 to 11 miles, but the majority are in, or have options in, the five to seven mile range popular for half day walks. Suggestions of possible combinations of walks are given for those preferring a full days' walk. Each walk text gives details of nearby places of interest and is accompanied by a specially drawn map of the route which also indicates local pubs and a skeleton road network.

The walk locations are: Rickmansworth; Chorleywood; Sarratt; Flaunden; King's Langley; Hemel Hempstead; Berkhamstead (2); Northchurch Common; Tring; Marsworth; Pitstone Hill; Aldbury Common; Picott's End; Redbourn; Markyate; Studham; Whipsnade Downs; Dunstable Downs; Dunstable; Toddington; Harlington (Beds); Barton-le-Clay; Lilley; Pegsdon (2); Great Offley; Hitchin; Preston; St Paul's Walden.

Water always adds something special to a walk and both Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire offer notable waterside landscapes. The twenty circular routes in this book are between 2.5 and 6 miles in length. They take the walker part of the way along the banks of these waterways through some beautiful scenery. Each is carefully described and includes information such as how to get to the start, where to park and where to go for refreshments. There are colour photographs throughout illustrating some of the highlights to be seen along the way. All the walks are based on at least one pub. For greater clarity the route descriptions are divided into numbered paragraphs which correspond with numbers on the accompanying sketch maps.

You can stroll by delightful stretches of the Grand Union Canal at Leighton Buzzard, Berkhamsted and Kings Langley; walk by the Great Ouse at Tempsford and Oakley; visit the Ivel, Flit, Colne and New river; and enjoy the Marsworth reservoirs; and the lakes at Verulamium Park and Harrold-Odell Nature Park.

The 20 walk locations are: Odell and Two Lakes; Tempsford, the Great Ouse and the Ivel; Oakley and the Great Ouse; Biggleswade and the River Ivel; Shefford and the River Flit; Linslade, Grand Union Canal and the Ouzel; Leighton Buzzard, Grand Union Canal and the Ouzel; Luton and the source of the Lea; Arlesey and the River Hiz; Stapleford and the River Beane; High Wych and the River Stort; Hunsdon and the River Ash; Hertford and the River Lee; Marsworth reservoirs; Wheathampstead and the Lea; Berkhamsted and the Bulbourne; Cheshunt, the Lee and Stort and New rivers; St Albans and the River Ver; Kings Langley and the Grand Union Canal; Watford and the River Colne.

The lively and informative routes in this guide take the walker on a journey through history from the Dunstable Down camps of Neolithic Man to Tempsford airfield built during the Second World War and used for sending secret agents into enemy territory. On the way there are visits to the Roman city of St Albans; Berkhamsted, where William the Conqueror was formally offered the crown of England; a flour mill near Bromham dating from the Middle Ages; and man-made caves in West Wycombe, home to the Hell Fire Club. In addition the routes explore the history behind Woburn Abbey, Hughenden Manor, and Waddesdon; Brunel's spectacular Great Western railway bridge over the River Thames at Taplow, and Great Amwell's New River constructed to provide plague-ridden 16th century London with clean drinking water.

The circular walks, varying in length from 3 to 6.5 miles, cover some of the most beautiful countryside in England. Besides clear route instructions and fascinating snippets of history, this volume also provides practical information on how to get to the start, where to park and where to stop for refreshments.

The walk locations are: Dunstable Downs; Cholesbury Hill Fort; St Albans; Berkhamsted; Boarstall Tower, Brill; Bromham Mill; Woburn Abbey; Great Amwell; West Wycombe; Ashridge Park, Aldbury; Taplow Bridge; Hughenden Manor, Downley; Claydon House, Steeple Claydon; Waddesdon Manor; Ayot St Lawrence; Tempsford.