Chiltern Hills
The Chiltern Hills span the area between Wessex in the South West and Hitchin in Hertfordshire - across much of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. These rolling hills feature swathes of habitat-rich grassland, broken up by ancient beech, ash and box woodland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hill with an elevation of 768 feet
- Description: hills in South East England
- Also known as: “Chilterns” and “The Chilterns”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garsington Opera and Oakley Hill nature reserve.
Garsington Opera
Theater building
Garsington Opera is an annual summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. The Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert are its two resident orchestras.
Oakley Hill nature reserve
Nature reserve
Oakley Hill is a 13-hectare nature reserve south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire, England. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Cowleaze Wood
Forest
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cowleaze Wood is a 70-acre woodland in the Chiltern Hills, a chalk ridge in South East England. The wood is in the civil parish of Lewknor, in Oxfordshire, about 1+1⁄4 miles southeast of the village.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stokenchurch and Chinnor.
Stokenchurch
Village
Photo: David Ellis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stokenchurch is a village and civil parish in south-west Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about 3 miles south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire and 6 miles west of High Wycombe.
Chinnor
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles southeast of Thame and close to the border with Buckinghamshire.
Ibstone
Village
Photo: UKgeofan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ibstone is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is in the Chiltern Hills on the border with Oxfordshire, about 2 miles south of Stokenchurch.
Chiltern Hills
- Categories: mountain range, upland, and landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Chiltern Hills” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chiltern Hills”
- Arabic: “تلال تشيلترن”
- Basque: “Chiltern Hills”
- Breton: “Chiltern”
- Bulgarian: “Чилтърн Хилс”
- Catalan: “Chilterns”
- Cebuano: “Chiltern Hills”
- Chinese: “奇爾特恩丘陵”
- Chinese: “希尔腾山脉”
- Chinese: “希爾騰山脈”
- Czech: “Chiltern Hills”
- Dutch: “Chiltern Hills”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تلال شيلترن”
- Esperanto: “Chilterns”
- Finnish: “Chiltern Hills”
- Finnish: “Chilternin kukkulat”
- French: “Chilterns”
- German: “Chiltern Hills”
- Irish: “Chiltern Hills”
- Italian: “Chiltern Hills”
- Italian: “Chilterns”
- Japanese: “チルターン丘陵”
- Ladin: “Chiltern Hills”
- Latin: “Catyeuchlani”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiltern Hills”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chiltern Hills”
- Norwegian: “Chiltern Hills”
- Polish: “Chiltern Hills”
- Portuguese: “Chilterns”
- Russian: “Чилтерн-Хиллс”
- Russian: “Чилтерн-Хилс”
- Spanish: “Chiltern Hills”
- Spanish: “Chilterns”
- Swedish: “Chiltern Hills”
- Turkish: “Chiltern Tepeleri”
- Ukrainian: “Чилтернзькі пагорби”
- Venetian: “Chiltern Hills”
- Welsh: “Bryniau Chiltern”
- Western Frisian: “Chiltern Hills”
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