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Aston Rowant Discovery Trail – Juniper Bank loop from Aston Rowant Nature Reserve

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Aston Rowant Discovery Trail – Juniper Bank loop from Aston Rowant Nature Reserve

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Aston Rowant Discovery Trail – Juniper Bank loop from Aston Rowant Nature Reserve

01:05

9.40km

160m

Running

Moderate run. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 4, 2026

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Chilterns National Landscape

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1.56 km

Princes Risborough to Watlington Railway Route

Highlight • Historical Site

Princes Risborough to Watlington passenger and goods railway was opened in 1872 and finally closed in 1961. Some trains ran through to London.

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1.75 km

The Upper Icknield Way

Highlight • Historical Site

The Upper Icknield Way, which doubles as The Ridgeway National Trail, has been a drovers route for over 3000 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icknield_Way

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4.02 km

Talking Trail and Sculptures at Aston Rowant Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural

Talking Trail at Aston Rowant, a Sound and sculpture walk through spectacular Chilterns landscape.
There are sculptural installations with wind-up listening posts to interpret the wildlife, cultural history and ecological features of Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve. The trail is open all year and like the rest of the reserve is free of charge for all to enjoy. The reserve is bordered by The Ridgeway National Trail and Swan's Way and is well linked into the Public Rights of Way network in the area.

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4.08 km

View from Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve

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Natural England Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve. Juniper Trees, more Red Kites, Buzzards, Nuthatches, Common Spotted Orchid, Chiltern Gentian and many butterflies including the Chalkhill Blue.

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4.20 km

Beacon Hill Yellow Meadow Ant Hills

Highlight • Natural

The grassy bumps, dotted over the grasslands, are ant-hills made by yellow meadow a been continuously occupied, and growing in size, for about hundred years, because the top of ploughed in 1904. Since spread about 20 different species of ants living here, and they are constantly at war with one another, but the yellow meadow ant is the only mound-builder. Beacon Hill was last 1967 Dr Tim King has been studying the plant life that grows on the ant-hills, how rabbits help d plant seeds from the mound to mound, and why mosses only seem to grow on the north side of ant-hills. There are ant-hills support a different set of plant species from the surrounding chalk grassland. Rockrose and thyme can p through the heaped soil, whereas dwarf thistle, salad burnet, hawkbit and plantain often die when the ants heap soil over them.

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5.69 km

Aston Rowant Discovery Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Forest

National Trust Aston Wood. Watch out for Red Kites, Buzzards, Fallow Deer, Muntjac and Bluebells in the Spring. Beechwoods planted for the local furniture trade and firewood. Materials were used for house and road building from the flint and chalk pits.

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6.39 km

Stokenchurch BT Tower

Highlight • Viewpoint

Stokenchurch BT Tower is a telecommunications tower built of reinforced concrete at Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England. Reaching to 340.5 metres (1,117 ft) above mean sea level, it dates from 1963 and is 99.4 metres (326 ft) tall. There are four platforms at the top that are used to attach microwave transmission drums and other antennas.

The Stokenchurch Tower is one of the fourteen BT towers built of reinforced concrete. Seven of the fourteen are of similar design, known as the 'Chilterns' type, after this tower's location on the Chiltern Hills. They are identical except for their heights, which vary considerably.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokenchurch_BT_Tower

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7.40 km

Juniper Bank

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National Trust Juniper Bank. The area is riddled with loggers routes. The original London to Oxford Turnpike (1718 Stokenchurch to Wheatley Turnpike Trust) took a steep route down the Chiltern Escarpment here.

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9.40 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.01 km

2.38 km

713 m

628 m

470 m

109 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

4.50 km

1.50 km

1.20 km

1.13 km

926 m

109 m

Elevation

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Highest point (260 m)

Lowest point (120 m)

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Friday 15 May

13°C

1°C

86 %

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Aston Rowant Discovery Trail – Juniper Bank loop from Aston Rowant Nature Reserve

Princes Risborough to Watlington Railway Route

The Upper Icknield Way

Talking Trail and Sculptures at Aston Rowant Nature Reserve

View from Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve

Beacon Hill Yellow Meadow Ant Hills

Aston Rowant Discovery Trail

Stokenchurch BT Tower

Juniper Bank

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