Chiltern Walks: Bovingdon Green and Shillingridge Wood

Navigating a fallen tree near Kent’s Wood

Start & Finish: The Royal Oak, Frieth Road, Marlow, SL7 2JF
Distance: 10.9 km (6.8 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 152m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): Chiltern Way, Shakespeare’s Way
Other routes touched (cycle): None
Pubs / Cafes on route: The Royal Oak at start and finish
Map: Chiltern Hills East Map | High Wycombe, Maidenhead & Rickmansworth | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 172
Links: Bovingdon Green, Pullingshill Wood & Marlow Common

This is part of a series of short circular walks in the Chilterns. The guidance below will help you navigate but don’t use it as a fully accurate turn-by-turn guide. Always take a map and/or a GPX route and prepare well for the weather and terrain.

For this walk we parked at the Royal Oak pub on Frieth Road. From here take a left to walk along Frieth Road in a westerly direction and take the first footpath on the right. Follow the path north for 300m then take a left onto Mundaydean Lane. Follow Mundaydean Lane for it’s full length and continue when it becomes a footpath into Shillingridge Woods. At a footpath junction ~2.3km into from where you joined Mundaydean Lane, take a left to cross farmland.

The path will join Finnamore Lane then Frieth Road. Take a right onto Frieth Lane then first left onto Chrisbridge Lane. Follow Chrisbridge Lane for 2.5km then take a path on the left to cross farmland. Continue heading south until you meet the Chiltern Way and The Shakespeare’s Way on a small unnamed lane. Take a left onto the lane, then first left back down through the woods to the clearing. take a right to continue on the Chiltern Way and The Shakespeare’s Way.

Cross through Pullingshill Wood and into Davenport Wood where you’ll reach a path junction at 9.7 km into the walk. Leave the Shakespeare’s Way which continues towards the east and instead take a left to follow the Chiltern Way in a north-easterly direction. Continue along the Chiltern Way until you’re back at the Royal Oak pub in Bovingdon Green.