page_title: Chiltern Hills
section_title: Strip parishes associated with the Chilterns
hierarchical_section_title: Chiltern Hills / Settlement / Strip parishes associated with the Chilterns
caption_attribution_description: English: Brick "bottle kiln" in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire: probably late 17th-century
context_page_description: The Chiltern Hills or, as they are known locally and historically, the Chilterns, form a chalk escarpment that stretches across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire. In 1965, a large part of the Chilterns was designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
  The Chilterns Hills are northwest of London. They cover an area of 322 square miles stretching 45 miles in a southwest to a northeast diagonal from Goring-on-Thames to Hitchin, and are 12 miles at their widest.
  The northwest boundary of the hills is clearly defined by the escarpment. The dip slope is by definition more gradual, and merges with the landscape to the southeast. The southwest endpoint is the River Thames. The hills decline slowly in prominence in northeast Bedfordshire.
context_section_description: The western edge of the Chilterns is notable for its ancient strip parishes, elongated parishes with villages in the flatter land below the escarpment and woodland and summer pastures in the higher land.
  Bedfordshire: Eaton Bray, Toddington, Totternhoe
  Buckinghamshire: Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Bledlow, Buckland, Drayton Beauchamp, Great Kimble, Horsenden, The Lee, Marsworth, Monks Risborough, Pitstone, Princes Risborough, Saunderton, Stoke Mandeville, Weston Turville
  Hertfordshire: Tring, Wigginton
  Oxfordshire: Aston Rowant, Checkendon, Chinnor, Ipsden, Lewknor, Mongewell, Newnham Murren, Nuffield, Pyrton, Shirburn, South Stoke, Watlington
caption: Nettlebed's one remaining pottery kiln
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