A family day out on the chalk: short walks, picnics and things to spot
Planning a summer family day round Lilley, Offley and King's Walden: short walks with children, stiles and cattle, picnic manners, butterflies and ticks.
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Rights of way, stiles, chalk tracks and routes worth a morning, planned on the paper map.
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Reading an OS Explorer map on the Chiltern edge
How to read an OS Explorer map around Lilley, Offley and King's Walden: rights of way symbols, contours on gentle chalk, grid references and bearings.
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The Icknield Way from Lilley to Telegraph Hill, and what to wear on chalk
Walking the Icknield Way from Lilley up to Telegraph Hill and the Pegsdon Hills, with plain advice on boots, gaiters, poles and maps for chalk tracks.
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Lilley Hoo: the open common and its racing past
Lilley Hoo survived the 1768 enclosure as open common, hosted horse races for about a century and gave Telegraph Hill its name. Here is what the sources say.
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A circular walk from Great Offley to Little Offley and back
Plan a loop from Great Offley out to Little Offley over chalk farmland: what you pass, how the paths behave by season, maps, waymarks and dogs.
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