The stunning River Chess, can you help us to care for this chalk stream by becoming a River Warden in Chesham? The role involves carrying out wildlife surveys, reporting problems and maintaining riverside paths. Find out more here 👉bit.ly/3QMT5ub

Those far-reaching views across rolling green Chilterns countryside dotted with little villages clustered around a church or village green, beech wood domes and soaring red kites are such a cliché. That’s true for the Hambleden Valley! 🥾🌳marytebje.substack.com/p/the-hamblede…

Be ‘in the know’ and book your place. Don’t leave it too late, places fill up quickly…by those already in the know. The Spring Chilterns Walking Festival 🥾🌳☀️➡️ chilterns.org.uk/whats-on/walki… The Alford Arms Chiltern Society Chilterns Walking Festival Chilterns National Landscape Micro Travels with Mary 

"Sewage pumped into river in picturesque Chilterns village for five consecutive days." Do the Chilterns still qualify as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty if it's got copious amounts of sewage being dumped into it all day? Hmm? 🤔 independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Hello Summer! #ChilternsTreasures

Tucked away in the folds of the South Oxfordshire Chilterns, Ewelme village of just over 1,000 residents has so many wonderful stories, I really don’t know where to start. The Grande Dame? ℹ️open.substack.com/pub/marytebje/… Chilterns National Landscape Chiltern Society EwelmeVillageStore The Ridgeway National Trail

Tucked away in the Wye Valley is a unique 18th century Italian-inspired Chilterns landscape, built to impress and entertain. Beside which a tiny village creeps up the hill towards the biggest show-off structure in the region; an 18th century mausoleum. ➡️shorturl.at/wYemT

Leo anxiously awaits the outcome. #Elections2024 #GE24 #DogsatPollingStations

Amazing how much goes into each bottle. No only making sure the wallabies next door don’t get in, but add climate change, competition from the champagne region, new Tech & marketing, it’s an exciting, innovating industry. Come and taste Oaken Grove Vineyard🍷 open.substack.com/pub/marytebje/…

Keeping up Appearances Look no further than a small country church for examples of social climbing, ensuring our status is recognised long after we’ve gone. ➡️open.substack.com/pub/marytebje/… Micro Travels with Mary  Hughenden Chilterns National Landscape Chiltern Countryside

Dreaming of a weekend getaway? Check out the beautiful Chess Valley — just 30 miles from London!  Wonderful walks, nature reserves, tasty pub grub & afternoon tea - there's something for everyone! 🥾🍰🌳 Download guide 👇 bit.ly/3NqeMyK 📸 Studio Beam

Let’s continue our A - Z Chilterns Treasures journey into the valley of nettles between Nettleden & Great Gaddesden where you’ll find the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, a place of peaceful learning and worship. 📖 shorturl.at/J5ybV

The chalk under our feet determines so much of what grows in the downland, where you could find over 80 species of wild bees, Roman snails, brimstones and chiffchaffs. And other amazing stuff! ℹ️open.substack.com/pub/marytebje/… 📍College Lake BBO Wildlife Trust

Welcome to the next instalment of our A - Z Chilterns Treasures journey discovering all the things in and around the Hambleden Valley that start with letter D. D is for Discovery, by Micro Travels with Mary  open.substack.com/pub/marytebje/…

I love a launch, especially in Met Office hurricane forecast! The new, very old #GreatChalkWay links the Jurassic Coast with the Wash in Norfolk along well-established routes and National Trails and is yours to explore and discover across South-East England’s chalk escarpment.

A feast from the Forest This region is distinctive because of our beechwoods, once used for chair making, charcoal, lumber for London, now still an integral part of our landscape and woodland heritage, a place to escape and breathe. by Micro Travels with Mary  open.substack.com/pub/marytebje/…

Despite the imported horrors from across the pond, Halloween is believed to have originated from an ancient Celtic festival of Samhain celebrated on the night of 31 October, the eve of All Saints' Day when ghosts and spirits are abroad. #halloween2024 👻 open.substack.com/pub/marytebje/…

Live from New York, it's Saturday night.

A brilliant new photography exhibition has launched The Elgiva called 'Pathways - A Photographic Journey Along the Ridgeway’. The exhibition celebrates our 87-mile National Trail that runs from Avebury in Wiltshire, all the way to Ivinghoe Beacon. ℹ️shorturl.at/SvbWC