Beaconsfield is an elegant Georgian coaching town with two distinct halves, Old Town and New Town, set at the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills. Burnham Beeches — one of the finest ancient beech woodlands in England, with veteran pollarded trees centuries old — lies just a few miles to the south.

An elegant Georgian town with excellent ancient woodland nearby, Beaconsfield makes a pleasant and well-connected Chiltern walking base, particularly for Burnham Beeches — one of England’s most important ancient woodland sites.