Chesham is an old chair-making town at the end of the London Underground’s Metropolitan line, sitting in the beautiful Chess Valley — a classic Chiltern chalk stream valley of watercress beds, ancient mills and quiet villages including Latimer and Sarratt.

An accessible Chiltern town reachable directly by London Underground, Chesham makes a surprisingly rural-feeling base for the Chess Valley — one of the prettiest and most overlooked chalk stream valleys within reach of London.