
Experience the Chilterns
We have carefully chosen our most immersive and memorable Chilterns Countryside Experiences to share with you here. Use the filters below to find and book your perfect experience!
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A Chilterns Traffic-free Jolly: A self-guided cycle tour
- Family friendly
Designed specifically for families with young children and for those wanting to enjoy a holiday with a bit of cycling.
- Price: From £452 pp
- Location: Starting daily from Aston Clinton

It's Criminal! Agatha and Barnaby in Wallingford
To all would-be detectives! Enjoy a walking tour of a famous Midsomer County filming location, then adjourn to a local pub for lunch or a cream tea where you can pit your skills against the local detectives to discover the...
- Price: From £38 per person
- Location: Wallingford Museum

Sketching and painting in the beautiful Chilterns landscape with Samantha, the Travelling Artist
Join art tutor Samantha for a relaxing 4 hour drawing and painting experience in the beautiful Chilterns. You will be given your artists materials and be taken on a scenic walk through Goring and the surrounding hills, experiencing how you...
- Price: £75 including art materials
- Location: Goring-on-Thames

Walking tour in Marlow and lace-making experience
Enjoy a very special half-day town tour and lace-making experience. The walk takes the form of a circuit around central Marlow. It passes many beautiful buildings and brings with it intriguing stories: of lace-making, brewing and a shrivelled mummified hand!...
- Price: £27
- Location: Marlow

Queens Park Arts Centre: Hub, heart and home for creative arts
A packed programme of workshops, exhibitions, Bucks Open Weekend, Heritage Open Days, plus Craft Fairs and Arts Festivals - featuring local and international artists. Get involved!
- Price: Free and paid-for activities
- Location: Aylesbury

Capture the Chilterns: Create your own smartphone memories
Feel a sense of relaxation as you walk the Chilterns hills and River Chess around the historic market town of Chesham with award-winning photographer Matt Writtle. Under Matt's expert guidance, you will learn the fundamentals of composition and lighting, whilst...
- Price: £75
- Location: Chesham and the Chess Valley

Volunteer amongst the Vines: Spring, summer and harvest time
Daws Hill vineyard is a boutique vineyard nestled in the beautiful and tucked away Radnage Valley. We are very proud to look after our vines by hand and care for each one individually throughout the growing year, especially during harvest,...
- Price: Volunteering free of charge, tours and events have a cost
- Location: Radnage

Chilterns Open Air Museum: Experience Days and Workshops
Chilterns Open Air Museum COAM is home to 30 reconstructed and restored buildings from the local area. Three Chilterns countryside experiences days with a difference are available: from the physical exertions of the blacksmiths forge, to the ancient craft of...
- Price: From £45
- Location: Chalfont St Giles

Welcome to the BackWoods: Learn a skill you’ve always wanted to master
Our experiences range from campfire cooking, bringing nature into your home, wreath making, art and nature workshops - or try you hand at axe and knife throwing. All in the beautiful woodland setting of Stott’s Nursery in Stokenchurch, just a...
- Price: From £25
- Location: Stokenchurch

Bushcraft with David Willis: Connect with nature
- Family friendly
David offers wilderness living skills, nature connection and woodland crafts on scheduled courses throughout the year, with activities to suit all ages, abilities and needs. He teaches small groups of just four participants that he knows works well as these...
- Price: From £95
- Location: Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire

Chiltern Trike Tours: Feel the wind in your hair
For the first time visitor, there are a number of tours to choose from that take in the beautiful Chilterns; the ancient beech woodlands, historic market towns, hills and far-reaching views. For those wanting to celebrate a special occasion, a...
- Price: From £265
- Location: Across the Chilterns

Brewery Tours are back! Brewing is in the blood
Enjoy an evening at the Lodden brewery, discovering first-hand how the award winning beers are made – with a pint of your favourite Loddon brew in your hand at all times. The tours are led by head brewer Jake or...
- Price: £17.50
- Location: Dunsden

Griffiths Brothers Distillery: Tasting events and tours
Could two brothers create a gin from scratch that would impress family and friends? Sourcing organic and local produce whenever possible, it’s essential to only use the finest and freshest botanicals.Take a distillery tasting event at this family-run distillery in...
- Price: From £20
- Location: Amersham

Broom Wagon Cycle Tours
Half-day E-bike tour & lunch in The Chilterns & Henley-on-Thames Enjoy the effortless power of the E-bike as you glide through the beautiful scenery of the Chilterns. Your local guide, Mark, will take you on a scenic 3 hour route...
- Price: £145
- Location: Across the Chilterns

Kew Little Pigs: For pig-lovers of all ages
- Family friendly
Located on a small family-run farm in Amersham, Kew Little Pigs offers a variety of hands-on piggy experiences. Up close, these oinktastic loving and friendly micro pigs might have had a litter, so be sure to check before you book.
- Price: From £25
- Location: Amersham

Full Steam Ahead! Chinnor & Princess Risborough Railway
- Family friendly
This popular heritage railway takes you on a 7-mile round trip through the Chilterns Countryside from Chinnor to Princes Risborough and back again
- Price: From £6
- Location: Chinnor

Path Hill Adventures: Experiences to nourish the soul
- Family friendly
Get back to nature with your family or test your mettle on an adventure course!
- Price: From £8.50
- Location: Hardwick Estate

Bucks Goat Centre: Bunny brunch and other animal experiences
- Family friendly
Join Gizmo, Donald and Crispy the Duck, some of the residents at the Bucks Goat Centre near Aylesbury.
- Price: From £5
- Location: Stoke Mandeville

Walking with Wildlife: Go with a guide!
- Family friendly
You’ll most likely be up early to get on the trail, or boat, with your guide Steve Gozdz of GG Wildlife Experiences.
- Price: From £95
- Location: Goring-on-Thames and across the Chilterns

Puddingstone Distillery Tours: Under stars, by a campfire, a gin was born
The first gin distillery in the Hertfordshire Chiltern Hills, situated next to Wilstone Reservoir, you can also visit the distillery and shop on Fridays and Saturdays.
- Price: Tours from £20 pp
- Location: Tring

Awesome Amersham: Join a guided walk of historic Amersham
- Family friendly
Join one of Amersham Museum's popular guided walks.
- Price: £5 for adults, children free
- Location: Amersham

Cycle Adventures in Beautiful Places: Glorious Chilterns
These Chilterns countryside adventures offered by Wild Cycles will leave you grinning from ear to ear.
- Price: From £60
- Location: Chiltern hills - Chiltern Velo and Aldbury

Pipsticks Walks: Make magic in the Chiltern Hills
- Family friendly
Philippa's Chilterns countryside knowledge is vast; from the poetry of Wilfred Owen, to wood anemones and navigation.
- Price: From £15
- Location: Across the Chilterns

The Chilterns from the air: A sublime aerial experience
The pilot will fly you over the beautiful Chiltern hills, River Thames, towns, meadows and abandoned medieval villages.
- Price: From £149
- Location: Various locations including Great Missenden and Tring

Danesfield House: Celebrate special occasions at this local landmark
In 65 acres of formal gardens with outstanding views over the River Thames and the Chiltern Hills beyond.
- Price: From £10
- Location: Marlow

Magpies and Butterflies: Relaxing River Trips on a skippered Dutch Barge
A day on the River Thames is not just a summer thing: we offer half day and full day skippered river trips on the barge.
- Price: From £40
- Location: Bourne End Marina

Electric Life Cycling: Go exploring on an electric bike
An electric, or ‘E-bike' is perfect for those cyclists who are after something more casual and comfortable whilst exploring the beautiful Chiltern Hills.
- Price: From £35
- Location: Ivinghoe

Foraging and Wild Cooking: Cooking what’s in season
Walk through the woods with trained herbalist and forager Justine Gens of Secret Adventures.
- Price: From £50 pp
- Location: Goring Heath

Nature Kicks: Guided hiking and camping experiences
Enjoy handpicked routes and trails with Shameer Shah, on guided day hikes, or a three-day camping trip exploring beautiful Chilterns landscapes, immersing yourself in the naturally outstanding environment.
- Price: From £40
- Location: Chiltern Hills

Oaken Grove Vineyard: Music in your glass
Savour vineyard tours and tastings throughout the season at this pretty Chilterns vineyard surrounded by ancient woodlands.
- Price: From £20
- Location: Fawley

Chilterns Walking Tours: Explore special film & TV locations!
Bobbie offers a range of day walks and tours throughout the year in the Thames and Chilterns area; the filming location of the Midsomer Murders and Downton Abbey TV series.
- Price: From £27
- Location: Henley, Marlow and other, see website for details

Walk Works: No apps needed!
Meet new friends on these guided Chilterns walks in our beautiful countryside. No need for maps/apps on these varied routes around South Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley.
- Price: From £10
- Location: South Oxfordshire

The Henley Distillery
Discover how they produce their hand-crafted gins with traditional, artisan methods with a head distiller. They will share their knowledge and experience with you as you discover the processes which creates this memorable #Chilterns product.
- Price: From £15
- Location: Henley

Wild Ivy Retreats: A renewed relationship with nature
Events at Wild Ivy Retreats will inspire a renewed relationships with Chilterns nature, through gentle insight, connection and the expansion of mind and senses; and to the earth through nourishment and nutrition.
- Price: From £50 pp
- Location: Tring

Mary does Marlow
Purveyors of theatrical walking tours of historic and literary Marlow-on-Thames, hosted by the formidable and entertaining "Mary Shelley”. You’ll never think about Marlow in quite the same way again.
- Price: From £10
- Location: Marlow

Feast Over Fire: Woodland feasts inspired by nature
Escape to our remarkable hidden woodland nestled amongst the Chiltern Hills. Indulge in a foraged feast cooked over an open flame - all inspired by the wild ingredients that grow in abundance around us. Seasonal feasts by Experience Nomadic.
- Price: From £99
- Location: Chalfont St Peter
