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hedleythorne.bsky.social
The Chilterns are surreal and beautiful in autumn. The view immediately in front of us appeals to me far more than any blue coastal scene. Good walk, good weather excellent company. You can keep your Algarve. #woods #forest #autumn
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
miltonei.bsky.social
Listening to the sounds of Autumn in the Chilterns. (the fall . . . )
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
dfoyliv.bsky.social
Magpie Inkcap, Clustered Bellflower & White Helleborine during a works day out in the Chilterns yesterday. #Botany #UKOrchids #wildflowers #orchids #fungi #Chilterns #Autumn #fungifriday
@ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
diminutivefox.bsky.social
leasant day wondering the Chilterns. My bike modelling Hilly 100 in the background in a moment when the people in my phone materialise in the real world. Great to meet @soxoncycler.bsky.social IRL tho’ I reckon they dodged a bullet avoiding me chatting their ear off for 60k when I got a puncture… 🤣
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
andydenizen.bsky.social
The Chilterns looked amazing in the autumnal sun today. Did a 75km ride up to Christmas common and back through Stoke Row, & Wallingford. Loads of riders out; chatted to someone who was doing the Henley Hilly 100. Nice day ferit. #Oxfordshire #Cycling
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
seb2024.bsky.social
More loud fireworks going off in an otherwise very peaceful rural part of the #Chilterns AONB. Some people clearly don't give a shit about local wildlife and livestock.
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
soxoncycler.bsky.social
Good morning! It’s Audax-O’clock so I’m on the way to Reading to do the “Henley Hilly Hundred”. 108kms and about 1,300m of climbing around the Chilterns AONB.

#Cycling #Audax
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
leftoutside.bsky.social
Or some railway sidings and tunnels in the chilterns
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
hillfortian.bsky.social
I suspect a lot of the gaps in actual ground -truthed or existing road ls are just joined as straight lines.
I need to check if some of the new road segments our volunteers on the Beacons of the Past project discovered thru our hi-res LiDAR ended up in here yet.
Like this corker!
A LiDAR image showing a straight line of Roman road RR163 (C) Chilterns National Landscape
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
balhnews.bsky.social
Join us tonight to learn how LiDAR technology is transforming local history, as Dr Wendy Morrison reveals how high-resolution aerial data from the Beacons of the Past project is uncovering hidden traces of human activity across the Chilterns.

Book your place: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-a...
A woman in a plaid shirt and jeans crouches underneath a large prehistoric structure on a sunny day.
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
fosterclare.bsky.social
@GardensHour #GardensHour #Gardening #Flowers #Blooms #Chilterns I really need to start the autumn tidy up but there's just too much colour still going on
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
thene.bsky.social
wow. learned a new word: "Holloways are ancient roads or lanes that have sunk below the surrounding ground due to erosion over the centuries. You can find them all over the Chilterns: narrow, atmospheric roads with vertical banks of earth on either side, canopied by trees." v @hookland.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
hedleythorne.bsky.social
Climbing the Bix Bottom valley towards Cookley Green, where old beech woodland, chalk slopes and autumn leaves produce their rich and colourful cathedral. #Chilterns #Autumn #Fall 🍁 @annadillon.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
cyclinguk.bsky.social
We recently joined Freddie van Mierlo MP and Cllr Ben Higgins for a ride along our new Royal Chilterns Way route 🚴‍♂️🌳 Showing how great routes boost local economies & connect communities.

We’re pushing for safer, better-funded cycling for all.

🔗 https://www.cyclinguk.org/pedalling-rcw
Three individuals standing with bicycles in a park, with trees and hills in the background. The person in the center is wearing a green coat and a hat, while the others are dressed in sports attire and helmets. Two people cycling on a wooded trail, surrounded by autumn foliage. Both are wearing helmets and casual attire. Three individuals cycling on a path beside a canal with a moored boat, surrounded by lush greenery and trees.
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
hedleythorne.bsky.social
​The gold of the #Chilterns at Freedom Wood. I'm thrilled that first rate artist @annadillon.bsky.social will be transforming this scene into a painting. Stay tuned for updates!
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
janpsolivagant.bsky.social
#PoemsAbout #Blood @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

En route today, so will catch up later.

#poetry #ancestry #mines #Pinner #NorthLondon #Chilterns #Ulysses #throwaway #gambling #dreams
Montesole Pits Their Youngest slakes the Quicklime. Metropolitan Line Flushes them with cash, Cachet, renown, the First car in Pinner - Wonted entitlement of Doctor and minor gentry. My Builder forebears Master the Arts-and-Crafts Idiom in mansions they Fashion on Pinner Hill. Lime Binder in plaster, mortar, render: Derived from chalk they once Quarried in deep-shafted, Chiltern-edged pits along Grim’s Dyke. Chaotic agents begetting Sinkhole, subsidence - They candle-scorch graffiti, Glyphs into the chalkface: Coded missives deciphered in Dreams of distant-offspring Sleepers. Later, One such forebear, Chaotic agent in his own Lifetime and household - Inveterate gambler and drinker - Forfeits fortune, the Family’s future, and the Ancient farmhouse he’s been Eyeing on Waxwell Lane. His boys will be fine: They all learn trades. His girls, later redoubtable Matriarchs, go into Service. Weathering Great Depression - Precipiced over Blitzkrieg Campaigns and Ill-provisioned Old Age - He dreams of workmen etching Eternal-loop glyphs, zeros and Ones into the Montesole chalkface. Jetsam reverie, Throwaway - Off-the-cuff whisper from an Ad canvasser in Portobello. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 With this, He brushes aside stories of a Message-in-a-bottle tip Washed up in Ireland that Prompts the Gullible public to Bet on Blue Shirt. Then, Spotting the 100/8 Odds on a third-placed Horse, commits a Substantial sum to the Wager. Reaps life-changing Windfall from the longshot Grand National winner. Buys house, land, Pension plan with the Winnings; retires to a Chiltern village, close to the Rothschild estate where He once went poaching as a Youth. Spends his Dotage dribbling Snuff stains onto his Tweeds. Passes away just as a Change-winded Old Etonian Tells them they’ve “Never had it so good.” Relating this tale, I often ponder the Tip left for me in my Ancestor’s adept Recklessness. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
oxfordclarion.bsky.social
Cycling UK’s newest multi-day bikepacking route through Oxfordshire, the Royal Chilterns Way, hosted a ride by Henley & Thame MP Freddie van Mierlo and Oxfordshire County Council cabinet member Cllr Ben Higgins on Monday.
Freddie van Mierlo and Ben Higgins on the Royal Chilterns Way
October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
hedleythorne.bsky.social
My seasonal picture of the ruins of St James, deep in The #Chilterns. This visit was with my favourite artist @annadillon.bsky.social and this perspective originally featured in our first Wessex Airscapes exhibition. #ruins
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
balhnews.bsky.social
Join us next week to learn how LiDAR technology is transforming local history, as Dr Wendy Morrison reveals how high-resolution aerial data from the Beacons of the Past project is uncovering hidden traces of human activity across the Chilterns.

Book your place: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-a...
A woman in a plaid shirt and jeans crouches underneath a large prehistoric structure on a sunny day.
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
sophiecarr.bsky.social
Three little mushrooms, sitting on a twig.

#mushrooms #mycology #Hockeridge #Chilterns #Berko #LocalPhotography #CanonR6II
Three tiny fungi sitting on a little twig above an autumnal orange/brown leaf. The gills are pronounced and there is some sunshine on them. Blurred brown leaves behind.
October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
sophiecarr.bsky.social
Last photo for tonight - some wonderfully colourful leaves from yesterday's jaunt to Wendover Woods 🍁🍃🍂

#Autumn #AutumnLeaves #WendoverWoods #Chilterns
Leaves that are changing colour on a couple of branches. Some of the leaves are green in the middle with red at the edges, some are yellow with red edges. I think they're Norway Maple leaves.
October 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
sophiecarr.bsky.social
Now I've discovered porcelain fungi it's difficult photographing anything else! They're definitely on their way out though.

#HockeridgeWoods #Chilterns #Fungi #Mushrooms
Two porcelain fungi (one big, one tiny) sticking out from peeling bark on a log. They're backlit a bit so you can see the gills. There are some autumn leaves and trees blurred in the background.
October 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
sophiecarr.bsky.social
Still think that fly agaric are the coolest of the mushrooms. Found this one in the same spot as some others seen a week ago, and loved the way it was decaying.

#Mushrooms #Hockeridge #Chilterns #CanonR6II #MacroPhotography
A decaying fly agaric mushroom sitting in leaf litter. The photo has been taken from ground level, and the mushroom has a little bit from the top hanging down, blowing in the wind.
October 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
sophiecarr.bsky.social
Here are some nice brown mushrooms :)

#Mushrooms #Mycology #Hockeridge #Chilterns
Some brown mushrooms at the bottom of a tree stump with lots of leaf litter. There are two large mushrooms and some smaller ones. A cluster of shaggy brown mushrooms, with another cluster blurred behind. They're sitting on a tree stump with some moss and wet orange leaves around. Flat brown fungus which is decaying in the middle (with white bits). Cluster of brown mushrooms surrounded by blurred brown fallen leaves.
October 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
Last weekend I visited the Royal Standard of England pub in Beaconsfield in the Chilterns. Wasn't expecting it to be so much like a museum with knick-knacks hidden everywhere. It is of course haunted, including by a drummer boy, cavalier and WW2 airmen.
Also used as a location in Hot Fuzz!
Photograph of a skeleton wearing an old fashioned coat, tricorn hat and with a sword. Photograph of a dimly lit old pub bar, used in the film Hot Fuzz. All sorts of old fashioned items are hidden around the place. Photograph of a carved wooden bear holding a pewter tankard. Next to it is a carved wooden face. Black beams are in the background. Photograph of a room with tables in a pub. The room is very old with many black beams. Lots of items including Roman centurion helmets, a wooden cockerel, model ships and plenty more are all over the place.
October 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM