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Buckinghamshire on Horseback
(Circular Routes)

This Buckinghamshire on Horseback book contains a guide to 21 circular routes within the county or just over the borders.


Status: Open

Promotion
This book can be bought from The British Horse Society's bookshop. Click on the picture to order online, or telephone 08701 202 244 to confirm the price. Orders can be made by credit card over the telephone, or by post from
The Bookshop,
The British Horse Society,
Stoneleigh Deer Park,
Kenilworth,
Warwickshire CV8 2XZ.

Ordnance Survey
This paths and tracks making up this route can be seen on the following Ordnance Survey maps. The Landranger series at 1:50,000 are useful route maps covering large areas of land.
  • Landranger Map 152: Northampton & Milton Keynes, Buckingham & Daventry
  • Landranger Map 153: Bedford & Huntingdon, St Neots & Biggleswade
  • Landranger Map 164: Oxford, Chipping Norton and Bicester
  • Landranger Map 165: Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard, Thame & Berkhamstead
  • Landranger Map 166: Luton, Hertford, Hitchin and St Albans
  • Landranger Map 175: Reading & Windsor, Henley-on-Thames & Bracknell
  • Landranger Map 176: West London, Rickmansworth & Staines

    Acknowledgements
    A number of people and organisations have given their time and expertise to provide details for the book and open up the trails, or have contributed in some other material way.
    In particular, The British Horse Society would like to thank Phyllis Woodman, Anita Gregory, Fiona Brown, Angela Love, Margaret McDonnell, Antonia Thoday, Ricky Hodges, Joan Allen, Alicia Strangman, Amy Jardine, Juliette Dean, Pat Sanderson, Jenny Summerfield, Deborah Dobson, Andrea Halfacre, Fiona and Tessa Manisty, carol Fricker, Vivienne Croxford, Caroline Lawson, Jennifer Lyall, Hazel Steels, Jane Lawes, Kim Bonny, Lynne Jones, Lynda Chappell, Di Amies, jackie Edwards and Steve Crowther for surveying, developing and describing the routes. The Society would also like to thank Wycombe District Riding Club and Chesham High School Pony Club who provided the route which was the start of Buckinghamshire on Horseback. Dave Marriott, Sharmane Geary and Mark Pond for the cover photograph; Kerstin Alford for the illustrations; Ian Stephanson of Milton Keynes Parks Trust who not only gave considerable support to the project but, with help from Anne Robinson, provided maps for the Milton Keynes rides; Alan Lamborne and the staff of the Rights of Way Department, Buckinghamshire County Council for their help and financial support. But most of all thanks are due to Brenda Wickham, the British Horse Society County Bridleways Officer in Buckinghamshire for co-ordinating the whole project with such enthusiasm and without whom the book would have remained a dream!

    © 2002 The British Horse Society. Updated: 5 Apr 02.
    Reference: SE-BU-CIR