Woburn is dominated by the great Woburn Abbey estate — 3,000 acres of deer park, woodland and gardens — and sits on the Greensand Ridge, a wooded sandy ridge running across Bedfordshire that supports the Greensand Ridge Walk, a 40-mile long-distance route.

An exceptionally elegant estate village with a great deer park on its doorstep, Woburn makes a pleasant and unusual walking base, combining grand parkland walking with the wooded Greensand Ridge.