Date: Sunday 7th April
Route: Hambleden to Marlow and back along the Thames Path & across Medmenham Lock
Distance: 12.1 miles
A beautiful sunny spring day and one of the best walks from the Time Out Country Walks near London Volume 2 - to paraphrase Masterchef "walking doesn't get any better than this!"
The walk, as detailed in the guide book, begins and ends in Marlow, however we chose to park in the car park on the road to Hambleden, so that we had more choice of places to eat in Marlow (and got the big hilly bits out of the way in the first half of the walk). Another alternative is to park in the free car park within Hambleden village.
The walk offers a great combination of hills and woodland, beautiful countryside, riverside walking, bridges, locks and weirs. Along the way today we encountered loads of wildlife - from red kites and deer to a lone fox on the hillside and even a crazy-looking turkey alongside the Flowerpot Hotel on the hillside above Medmenham Lock.
There are a few hills along the way and you can tell that you've walked a fair distance, however this is a really satisfying walk (and much better than the Marlow Walk in the Pathfinder Chilterns book).
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