 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm out for a walk in the countryside just on the edge of Chalfonson, Peter Chalfonson, Peter is a large village in Buckinghamshire and flowing right through the middle of Chalfonson, Peter just here Is the River Misfal? So we're gonna cross this Delightfully rural bridge over the river and this is a chalk stream It runs for about 17 miles from Great Missenden Right in the heart of the Chilterns down to Denham where it joins the River Cone It's a chalk stream, so it does sometimes dry up and indeed it has dried up in Chalfonson, Peter In the past, but it's it's flowing at the moment now today's video isn't to focus on the main Course of the River Misfal. I'm gonna do that in the future I'm gonna walk the whole river from Great Missenden all the way to Denham We're gonna do that in the future. What I'm gonna do today is Show you three of the River Misfal's tributaries all of which are in Chalfonson, Peter And when I last looked all had watering because they are even more prone to drying up So let's go and find them. So come across the river. This is Mill Meadow So we're right on the edge of Chalfonson, Peter. You can see residential area there fields that way and Looking that way is the village centre. So what I'm gonna do now, I'm gonna cross Mill Meadow and Just over there is one of the River Misfal's tributaries sources. So let's go and have a look So we've just come across Mill Meadow. We're now gonna go Down this path here to find the springs that form the first of the three tributaries We're gonna look at in today's video. So it's just up here So out of the three we're gonna look at. This is the Second longest or second shortest. It's not even a quarter of a mile long So give you an idea the final one we can look at is gonna be really short But the one we're gonna look at next is well about half a mile long. So, you know a bit longer So as we come Up here, we're getting closer and closer to Chalfonson, Peter Village centre. So as we come under this lovely beach tree here We come to some allotments and just on the other side the allotments is church, which will probably see a bit later on in the video, so Just show you where we are. The allotments and the village centre is there now Here if we go into this Overgrown sort of area We find the first of the spring you can see it's a bit just a bit of water Not a huge amount of movement. I can't actually see where it's coming up It is a summer's day and it's a hot summer's day But probably should have worn wellies really for doing this So I'm not gonna go any further, but you can see there's water And it just trickles off down there and just on the other side of the tree It widens out a bit. So what we're gonna do obviously I can't go the course of the river So I'm gonna take you back up on to the public footpath and footpath goes through the allotments and that's where there is a bridge over This tribute tree the only bridge over this tribute tree Of course you can cross it further up where it's culverted, which we'll get to in a minute I doubt many people actually realize they are crossing it where it's culverted. So as the footpath takes us into the allotments And The church is just behind there. So we'll we'll see that in a minute The bridge Over the culvert. It's just over there. So the culvert runs basically the edge of the allotments on the other side The culvert is the football ground here The two alleyways that go up into the residential area. So as we walk right through the middle now of the allotments I will show you the bridge and then we can walk along Beside the culvert. I'm sorry along beside the river To where it is culverted and I'm going to show you where it actually joins the main rhythm is born So yeah, that we shall come to that in a minute So here is the bridge. I was telling you about so you can see the river comes from that direction Goes underneath. It's really flowing nicely there. It's a bit overgrown. We're now going to follow the the river along here and I'll show you where it disappears underground so It is a little bit overgrown. That's probably because it's been dried up for the best part of I'd say 15 years I've not seen water in this probably since well at least since I was a Child, I don't even remember seeing water Sort of in my teenage years. So it's a bit kind of clogged up here But you know, the water is pushing on and making its way through There is an active group of volunteers who have been restoring the main course of the rhythm is born so I said it does dry up fairly frequently and These dry up for longer periods of time So it is my plan to do the whole rhythm is born But what I didn't want to do we'll start at the other end film it over a few days And when I get here, there's an outside chance. This might have dried up. So I thought it's Important that We sort of do this as like a pilot video for the main series I'll show you the culverts and they're flowing nicely there and then We will go and do the whole course of the rhythm is born at some point in the future So to come this is even quite deep and five well is on I might just be able to stand in it It's quite nice and open at this end and then when we get to here this is where The culvert is I wonder if I can Just step down here So here it disappears Under the culvert now. I'm not sure is Is it like a Straight line culvert or is there a kink in it because if it's sort of gone there It's gonna go under the garages. There's some fairly modern flats here. There was a building here Called Elwood house and it was built in the same style as these flats and it was demolished maybe in about 2004 maybe and there was also it had like an identical sister in Chalvon St. Jarls that was almost well Almost identical. It was slightly different, but they've both been demolished. They built this set of flats to somewhere That culvert must literally be running under us right now. And that's what I was saying I'm not sure how many people are actually aware, you know They're aware they cross it at the bridge, but somewhere under the car park is The culvert so what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take you to the end of where The culvert was or culvert is So this is the main village car park for Chalvon St. Peter Got the parish church just over there as I said, we would come close to it and now we have what I'll do I'll do a video on Chalvon St. Peter in the future So where we look at more buildings and landmarks, etc So that I just want to concentrate on the mizborn's tributaries So we come to here the main tributary runs along here over there is the Greyhound pub now Here is the main course of the river mizborn if you look just down there That is the other end of the culvert. So that's where The first tributary joins the main river mizborn. So what I'm going to do now I'm going to walk to the source of the next tributary. So, um, see you there So I have walked about half a mile away from Chalvon St. Peter village centre and I've come to the next tributary Now it comes it's a private garden there, but it comes under a little brick culvert just from under the fence. So It obviously must start in their garden and then it opens up here and There we go, and it flows off about 100 yards down there. Now you may be able to hear there is Busy main road just there. That is the A413 which, you know, runs from North Bucks right down to the Denham roundabout Now the old A413 is over there on the other side of those woodlands So what I'm going to do is I'm going to walk along here. I won't do it on camera all the way because as you can see it is a little bit overgrown It's a bit of an odd place to be to be making a video effectively just, you know, walking along the roadside But anyway, I'm going to go to the culvert and I shall show you that now So there we are. That is the culvert which takes this tributary of the river Misborne under the new A413. So Started about 100 yards that way It's flown Along here and it goes as I said underneath the A413. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to Go and cross it and we shall appear or I shall appear on the other side of the culvert Here we are then this is the same culvert We were at just a moment ago. So it takes this tributary under the A413 now As I said a lot of the time this used to be dried up and I used to come down here as a child Now this cycle way wasn't here. So this was just all in bushes So if you walk from Chalfaunt Park, which we'll get to in a minute There's a road just the other side But I used to come in here and I discovered that there was a culvert here But I never knew where it went. I didn't realize it went under the A413 And it'd always been my plan when it was dried up one day to crawl through And See where it went to but anyway, I never had to do that because as you can see we've just done it on foot so Here the course of this tributary is quite wide now again I don't know if it has a name but if anyone does know You know if you would like to comment and tell me Please do but there is something Rather interesting. I'll be able to tell you in a minute because I talked about how It can dry up So we actually have to leave the course here as we come into Chalfaunt Park It's a former stately home. It's also a business park I'll do a video more focusing on Chalfaunt Park in the future So I'm just going to walk up the road a little way and we shall find the river again So here we are a bit further up the course now just Look how I've grown that is that it's not great and that's probably One of the problems it has when it dries up with it starting to flow again It is just so overgrown now. Like I said, it had been dried up for at least 15 years so It almost kind of got abandoned. I'm wondering if people ever realized it would flow again but you know flow it has and it's got water in and It would look, you know, this was all cleared nicely because here we have the amazing Chalfaunt Park house Like I said, I will do a different video on it. This isn't going to be a history video This really is focusing on these On the tributaries of the River Mizpon, but it would just look so much nicer You look at that scene of the house Turned to here if this wasn't quite as overgrown. Okay, it's not quite so bad here but you know it could do with Just being you know cleared out and So you can see where loads of leaves here have bunched up and they've sort of pushed forward and Created a little waterfall, but the river is is very clear um I wouldn't like to try and drink it but It is a chalk stream and water from chalk stream You know is very pure and can be drank and would have been drank by people So you see the house the house. I'm not going to get too much into it But it was designed by John Nash Quite a famous architect the period. He designed many houses or many of the smaller buildings on the Attingham Park estate in Shropshire Attingham Park is National Trust We'll have to go there at some point, but yeah, we'll do a video more focusing on the house at some point in the future. So as we come along by This tributary of the River Mizpon Just over there That's the old cricket pavilion. It's it's currently abandoned Well, I last came okay. There's some horses in that field. So I'm not quite sure Really what's going on there, but It just the river gets quite overgrown again. I just saw what looked like a duck nesting um Or is it nesting you just see if the camera's picking it out. There is a duck. I don't want to disturb it So I won't go any closer, but just here something weird happens I talked about how they dry up Well It kind of is drying up. It's like the water Disappears we get to here and um There is literally no Water, so this is how I'm used to it looking being an empty river bed. Look I can stand in it And you know it is It's dry so It's a bit bizarre that 25 yards of that way It's flowing like a river here You know, look it is as dry as a bone, but weirdly where it um Further up it starts flowing again. So quite how that works This is where you know, if someone wants to help me here Can tell me is there another spring up here because what and what happens to that water it must sort of just soak into the ground and then Reappear so I'm gonna now follow the dried up river bed But I should get to a point where I show you where we have water again So believe it or not that the water would flow through all these bushes and it is still Very much dried up. We come to a point now where the road crosses the dried up river bed So you can see here's the bridge. So the water should be flowing under there into um Into there, so It's um, it's really strange to how it can be that there's water back there And there isn't here, but I have seen this on the main course of the river mizborn I've known it flowing Amisham, but be dried up in Chalfers at Peter. Interestingly I've never seen it dried up beyond Chalford Park because We'll look focus on it more when we do the main course of river mizborn But behind the Chalford Park house the river's been dug out into a lake and there's a spring At the upstream end of the lake and it's always always flowed since past there there is um I know the top section is known as the winter born section because it is it does naturally dry up in summer because the way chalk streams work It's like a sponge. So when there's water Um, or the water comes out the chalk like a sponge So the head of the river moves backwards and forwards, but it kind of so traditionally it should Dry up in the winter. I mean sorry dry up in the summer and flow in the winter But I've known summers where you know, it flows throughout the whole summer By the way, I'm just taking you on to this footpath. If you go up that footpath there, you'll go across the main road Up to George Cross We're going to get down here because I want to get back to that tributary. So yeah the head Of the river does move up and down the valley, but it never seems to dry up beyond here except for this tributary does Come and go Now it's just along the other side of the field now. I was out for a walk the other day It's kind of what gave me the idea for this so Along there's a drive along there. That's also a public footpath and that was when I noticed that there was water here But there wasn't further back there But there was at the top and that made me think let's make a video before the whole lot Drives up. I don't know if it's ever flown right the way through since it started flowing Earlier on in the year. I'm not I'm not entirely sure on that one But as we get to here the river is Just down there now This field is is a bit sort of muddy and boggy um Now have a look at this We're back to the same tributary as I said, this is the longest one and it's clearly Got water in it now Yes, there is this Drain coming off the main road, which no doubt is helping but there is water flowing from up there So, you know, there must be Another spring, but it just seems strange how where we first saw it there was so much water there How all that water can disappear now? This is a private driveway, but is a public footpath and it goes for a ford and um, there's a bridge for us to walk over So, um, what happens now? It goes into a private garden So I can't really show you anymore, but I'll point out when we get to the main course of the river Which is about 100 yards up there. I'll show you where it joins the main river misbord So we've now joined the main course of the river misborn the tributary we've been following it joins Just about there where my finger is so it's on private property So I can't take you to show you the confidence, but that's where it joins This is the main course of the misborn There's public footpaths one way Back through childhood park there's public footpath up there now. I don't want to spoil the surprise too much I'm only going to show you from here, but you can see there's a waterfall in the lake We will look at that more closely when we do the main Series where we walk the whole of the river misborn. That's Chalford Park Lake. So I'm going to um Let you see that in the future. So do look out for that video But now there's one more very short tributary at the other end of the lake that we need to go and find So now back at the other end of Chalford Park I've just come down this little path here to show you the third and final spring I'm going to show you today. It starts just here that you can literally see The water coming out the ground Now it just literally goes along there and around the corner. It's probably one of The shortest springs I've ever seen and it must be the shortest spring on the Misborn So follow this path around here. I shall show you Where it actually joins the main Misborn now a moment ago when I was down at the other end of lake I could see the waterfall through the trees. I'm going to save that for the main series But I'm now going to show you the other end of the lake because that's where it joins So it runs just over there through the trees over there are the offices I mentioned earlier. This is the main course Of the river Misborn and what it does it actually Goes down a bit of a waterfall Into the lake itself. So you can see the river is just flowing along along there And then there's a bit of a little cascade here So when I said I've never seen the river dry up beyond here I've come here and this section of the river will be dried up But the spring I think there might be one more spring down there I seem to remember seeing water coming out down there But the other tributary perhaps it was easier said than done to show you where it joins Let's see if we can find it through here Well oh yeah here we are So it's again all in the bushes but it is just there through those roaded endrooms And there is the lake on the main course of the river Misborn So it has been dug out to be a lake We'll go and do the Chalford Park of the gardens in the future And we'll look at more into the history But today's video was purely on the tributaries of the river Misborn But I'm going to actually finish by showing you a waterfall on the main river Misborn So this is a taste of what we've got to come when we do the main series We'll come across other country estates like this that the river Misborn flows through And we will follow it from source to confluence with the river Colm So I hope you enjoyed this video, thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment, tell your friends, tell your neighbours Tell everyone you think might be interested in River Misborn and my videos And watch out for the main series, it's coming in the future So from Chalford Park and River Misborn, goodbye