In and around Buckinghamshire...

A circular domed temple, has a collonade of surrounding pillars under a portico. You can see a flight of steps leading up to an open chamber. this is the Temple of Ancient Virtue at Stowe in Buckinghamshire. — Autumn colour in the Elysian Fields with the Temple of Ancient Virtue

Where will you visit today? The rolling Chiltern hills? A magical garden? The home of a Victorian prime minister?

Places to visit

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Children exploring the woodland at Ashridge Herts — Children playing in the woods at Ashridge

Tree-mendous Ashridge

We are holding a fun-filled family weekend this autumn in order to raise funds for our tree conservation work. Come along and help us celebrate Ashridge's most special trees on Sept 30th and Oct 1st.

A special weekend celebrating 'tree-mendous' Ashridge

Gardens and harvest

Rudbeckia flower in September, yellow petals with blue disc

September gardens around Buckinghamshire

The summer may be officially over, but nobody told our gardens. They're still looking lovely in the September sun and in many places you can see (and taste) the kitchen garden produce being put to good use.

Apple days and Harvest events in and around Buckinghamshire

Where there's countryside, there's a harvest and where there's an orchard, there's an apple day. Come and celebrate the best of the season with us.

Autumn walking in Buckinghamshire

Chequers Knap on the Chequers Estate (Not NT)

An autumn walk with a ranger at Pulpit Wood

Area ranger Nick Marsh leads an autumn walk. Follow in the footsteps of Boudica's tribe along tree-shrouded avenues and hollow ways to the ancient Hill Fort at Pulpit Wood.

The drive at Hughenden with the entrance to the walled garden in autumn

Autumn walks in and around Buckinghamshire

Enjoy an autumn ramble in the beech woodlands of the Chilterns. They blaze with colour at this time of year. Or make the most of warm days in the landscape gardens at Stowe.

Veteran trees on the Ashridge Estate, Hertfordshire

Looking after our veteran trees at Ashridge Estate

Discover more about the work we're doing to prolong the life of our ancient trees. Throughout Europe ancient and veteran trees are now rare. At Ashridge Estate, Chrissy Hardy and the ranger team are fundraising to ‘halo-release’ 1000 veterans.

Gray’s Monument and Gray’s Field Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire

Standing near St. Giles’ Church, this extraordinary five metre high monument of brick faced with Portland stone captures the poet Thomas Gray’s long association with the village of Stoke Poges and recognises his world-famous 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'.

More about the monument