Woburn, Eversholt, Milton Bryan

9 miles circular walk in Bedfordshire starting from Woburn and passing through the villages of Eversholt and Milton Bryan. Our walk soon alights to the Woburn Deer Park, an extensive 3,000 acres park where ten species of deer roam freely.

Eversholt is a picturesque village where church, pub, school, cricket pitch and pavilion happily coexist in close proximity. We will visit the Millennium Pond within the village, established in 2000 as a community project on what was previously an old field. It is designed as a woodland and water feature connected to a stream. The residents of the village built this themselves and many organisations donated plants or trees, including the school. 

Between the villages, the terrain is gently undulating, crossing through woodlands and open farmland.

As we leave Milton Bryan, we pass a derelict building that once served as a top-secret, state-of-the-art radio station used by the Political Warfare Executive during WWII to broadcast black propaganda against the Nazis. A multi-national team pretended to be Germans and fooled the enemy into thinking they were listening to real German radio stations. The programmes encouraged German soldiers to surrender and gave false and misleading instructions to civilians

We return to Woburn, a charming Georgian village featuring period architecture, tea rooms and specialised retail shops offering unique, niche goods.