Chiltern Walks: Forty Green and Vicarage Wood
At the entrance to the Royal Standard of England Pub
Start & Finish: The Royal Standard of England pub, Forty Green, Beaconsfield, HP9 1XT
Distance: 8.3 km (5.2 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 140m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): The Chiltern Way, The Chiltern Way Berkshire Loop
Other routes touched (cycle): None
Pubs / Cafes on route: The Royal Standard of England at the start and end.
Map: Chiltern Hills East Map | High Wycombe, Maidenhead & Rickmansworth | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 172
Links: Forty Green, Penn, Knotty Green
This is a short walk from the Royal Standard of England pub in Forty Green. The pub is said to be England’s oldest and has a rich history that you can read on its website. It caters well for walkers as it has a large free car park with an information sign for local walks. 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.
Our route took us on a clockwise half-circuit on the Chiltern Way Berkshire Loop and Chiltern Way then back through paths to the west of Knotty Green. From the pub car park take a right onto Bayleys Bottom Lane then the first footpath on the right onto the Chiltern Way Berkshire Loop. Follow this for ~1.5 km until you meet the junction with The Chiltern Way at Coppice Hoop woods. Take a right onto The Chiltern Way and follow it as it curves north/north-east through Beacon Hill until Noakes Lane. Here you’ll leave The Chiltern Way, following Noakes Lane south until it reaches the B474 Witheridge Lane. Take a left onto Witherage Lane.
Be careful on Witheridge Lane as cars can pass down it quite fast and there’s no pavement. You can keep off the road on the grass verges though. After 40 metres, take the first footpath on the right, between some large houses. Follow this path south for ~1.5 km until you meet Forty Green Road, taking a right to briefly follow it. Take the footpath on the left before the Forty Green sign where the road descends steeply. Follow this path south-west until the path junction at Hogback Wood. Take a right onto another path and follow this until you reach Forty Green Road again. Take a left onto the Forty Green Road and follow it back to the Royal Standard of England
