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Places to visit near John & Christine


Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire
The small country town of Princes Risborough lies between the Vale of Aylesbury and the Western Escarpment of the Chiltern Hills, on the route of an old Roman Road and is dominated by a chalk hill carving, the Whiteleaf Cross.

Ascott, Buckinghamshire
Jacobean house remodelled in the 19th century, with superb collections and gardens

Claydon House, Buckinghamshire
House famous for its 18th-century rococo interiors

Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
Grade I listed garden, extensive woodlands and Italianate mansion

Dorneywood Garden, Buckinghamshire
1930s-style garden

Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire
Home of the Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli

Pitstone Windmill, Buckinghamshire
Example of the earliest form of windmill

Princes Risborough Manor House, Buckinghamshire
Elegant late 17th-century house

Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire
Europe’s most influential landscape gardens

Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
Magnificent house and grounds in the style of a 16th-century French château

West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire
Perfectly preserved rococo landscape garden, surrounding a neo-classical mansion

West Wycombe Village and Hill, Buckinghamshire
Chilterns village with buildings spanning several hundred years

North Leigh Roman Villa, Oxfordshire
These are the remains of a large, well-built Roman courtyard villa.

White Horse and Dragon Hill, Oxfordshire
This group of sites lies along the Ridgeway, an old prehistoric route.

Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire
Near the Uffington White Horse lies this evocative Neolithic burial site

Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Windsor Castle is one of three official residences of The Queen.

University Colleges, Oxford
There are 38 colleges in Oxford, which together comprise the University of Oxford

Marlow on Thames, Buckinghamshire
Marlow is a charming historic town situated on the River Thames

Henley on Thames, Oxford
Henley Regatta was first held in 1839 and has been held annually ever since.

Chinnor & Princes Risborough railway
The quintessential country branch line