28/11/20 - Chiltern Chain Walk - Stage 9 - Chalfont St Giles to Amersham

Distance - 11.5 Miles

Geocaches - 4 and an Adventure Lab Cache

Walk Inspiration

Previous Stages - Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Stage 4, Stage 5, Stage 6, Stage 7, Stage 8

Final Weekend of Lock down 2, so I come prepared for the latest leg of the Chiltern Chain Walk with my own picnic of scotch eggs, malt loaf and Timothy Taylor Landlord.

Stage 10, I may be able to go into a boozer for a substantial meal.  All depends on the Tiers of a Clown called Boris.

The walking on today's leg cannot be really recommended too highly - but there's plenty of interest at the two villages that bookend the route.

Leaving from Chalfont St Giles, it's lanes and horse fields to Jordan's.  Not she of several autobiographies fame but an ancient hamlet that contains a Quaker Meeting house from 1688.  Was it worth the diversion South and lengthy stretch on a boy racer lane?  Maybe not.  But then, neither were the views as I reach the featureless map squares of the high ground above the Misbourne Valley.

How do you spend your Saturday's?

Only Amersham can save the day. 

An Adventure Lab Cache does a good job of pointing out places of interest in the Old Town.  Without it, I would have surely missed the Almshouses, the jail inside the Market Hall and the no need to rub it in, Brewery.

Amersham locals providing a warm greeting to rambling cachers

The Kings Arms Hotel - location for a substantial meal on Stage 10?

Amersham Church

Any hopes of saving money by the pubs being closed are dashed through the reckless decision to have a take away coffee at the Grocers, a rather smug looking delicatessen.  My incredulity at the 15 minutes waiting time was superseded by the £2.80 price of an Americano.   And I'm sure it was only a half.

The route back is easy walking along the crystal clear River Misbourne - taking me all the way to Chalfont St Giles.  No point checking out the Merlin pub, so I head in the opposite direction to see the Milton's Cottage - a place of refuge when the poet escaped the last but one plague in London.

Seems fitting, in its way.

River Misbourne

Miltons Cottage