 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm standing by the River Missbourne in Chalfonson Peter Village Centre. We finished our last video just there. The river goes through the Colver underneath the 1960s shopping complex. So if you watch my Chalfonson Peter village videos, you'll be able to see what was there before that. There's some of the older buildings that weren't demolished. So in the Chalfonson Peter videos, I talk about how the village used to be, but just to give you an idea what the river was like, there was a ford here and some older buildings there which were all demolished and they put the river through a ford. So what we're going to do, as I said at the end of the last video, I'll show you where this Colver here ends. It's not that exciting, but after that the river becomes really quite interesting. So come with me and let's follow the River Missbourne through Chalfonson Peter out into Chalfonson Park and beyond. So I've just come around behind the back of the shopping complex. This really isn't the prettiest part of Chalfonson Peter, but here is the other end of that Colver. There's the river, so it emerges from underneath the shop. So we were a moment ago, just the other side of there and the car park. The river now disappears into some bushes, flows through residential and industrial areas, a few offices, a few factories. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go through the houses and I'm going to walk on to the next exciting bit of River Missbourne. And I promise it's really going to get more interesting now. So the river Missbourne has flown through the offices and a couple of industrial places into a housing estate. It is just down here now, back to being more like a little stream again. The A413, as you possibly can hear, is just the other side of those trees. So I'm going to follow the river now. You can see just coming up here, there's a bridge over the river. Now we've been to this bit before, when we did one of the other Chalfonson Peter videos, I came along here and we also went down that footpath. So have a look at the link on screen now, you'll be able to see that video. So here, the river goes under, I suppose it's a cross between a bridge and a Colver. I suppose really it is a bridge, it's the road kind of skews around it and then it emerges just down there. Now I don't think we can see it, yeah, you can see it, yeah, there we go. Just through the fence, the river flows along the back of people's gardens and this footpath will take us to beside the A413. Now, it's just up here where the river does one of my favourite bits of its course. Now, I don't know how easy it's going to be for me to show this to you, but I'm going to have a good go at trying. It's going to be a bit of traffic dodging there in a moment. So we're just coming to the end of this footpath here, is the dual carriageway, the A413. So the same road which has been following the river since Great Missingdon is around about just up here. So the river is now somewhere in those trees. If I'd done this, say, in the winter, it wasn't actually flowing, I don't think, in the winter. It started to flow through again in about January, February, but it might have been a bit easier to have seen. But then, like I said, if it wasn't flowing, there perhaps wouldn't have been as much point in making a video. But we will see the river again shortly. That's always a bit of a clue of water, a weeping willow, which seems to have just dropped the branch down. So the river now is, we're going to see it any second now. We're just coming up to a big roundabout where the bypass of Chalfonson-Peter connects to the lower road, which would have been the old road through Chalfonson-Peter. So here is the river. It doesn't look like we can see it a great deal because, again, we can see a bit, trees and bushes, etc. But what it does here, this is the bit I really like. It goes into the middle of the roundabout. So this is the challenging bit. And thankfully there's no cars coming. So I'm going to run across the road now. And here we are. We are now in the roundabout and the river flows right through the middle. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go round to the other side and I'll show you where it goes after it's flown through the roundabout. So I'm now in the middle of the roundabout. I came over by that bridge there. The river flows right through the middle and out there. So I've now got to, in a moment, negotiate the traffic and try and get out. This will probably be the hardest and possibly the most dangerous bit of this explore. But after that, it should all be a lot easier and a lot safer. I have been on here once before when I was little. You know, as soon as I was old enough to go out on my own, I was determined to come and see the river here. And I know another time, and perhaps I should have done this today, I wore wellies and just waded my way under the bridge. I didn't wear wellies today, so I can't get out that way. So I am going to climb back out here. It's a funny place this roundabout because it's nice and peaceful. Apart from the noise of the traffic, it just seems so sort of, you know, it's like it's your own little world. There's no one else here. I know I'm the only person on this roundabout. So I'm now going to, as I said, I'm going to find my way up through the bushes, get to over there and we'll carry on following the river through to Chalford Park. So I found my way off the roundabout. A moment ago, I was just over there. I've come to a rather clogged up bit of river. Unfortunately, there's loads of branches and a load of rubbish has all got clogged up here. So that's, you know, interfering with the flow a bit, and it doesn't look particularly pleasant. But after this bridge, you can see the river goes over another bridge, and then it begins to flow into the George Cross Golf Club and Chalford Park. So from now on, I'm going to do the walk on more proper paths rather than this area around roadside. So we're going to go into Chalford Park. We've been here before when we did the tributaries of the River Midspawn. So have a look in that video coming up on the screen now. And we will, at some point in the future, I'll do one on the actual estate, the house, etc. So I'm going to carry on down this way. There's the other bridge. So yeah, into Chalford Park we go. So we're now crossing George Cross Golf Club. You can just see the river is just down there. So I won't go down to it because it's not part of the public footpath. Public footpath goes right across here, and then the river goes into the woods. Now we've been in those woods before because when we did tributaries of the River Midspawn, we were in there because that is where one of the tributaries joins the main river. So yeah, we're now going to sort of leave the golf course behind. So you can just see down there the bridges and that's where the river comes across. And here, private is that one. This is the public footpath. So the place I'm going to show you now, you will have seen this before if you've watched my tributaries of the River Midspawn. But we're going to go and have a look again. And it's this is what I mean. I like how the river becomes. I just think it comes quite varied after Chalford's and Peter. I think it's quite interesting through Great Missingdon and everything. So the river is just down there, just the other side of these bushes in the trees. There's an area just up here where we'll go in and have a look. And just over the other side is Chalford Park House. So we'll make our way over to Chalford. Well, we won't actually go over to Chalford Park House in today's video. We'll go there in a future video. So what we shall do is go through here and here we find the river. So the river flows along just through here. And then it trickles down into the lake just up there. What I'm going to do, I'm going to run over the other side of the lake or over the river, rather. And I'll show you a little waterfall where it goes down into the lake. So I've just come over to the other side of the river. You can see the waterfall comes down here and then it opens out into Chalford Park Lake, which is where are we? Just over here. So we go through these. Just sipping there. Just go through the road. Dendrums and here is Chalford Park Lake. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to have to get back across the other side of the river. I'm going to follow the lake right down to the other end. And Chalford Park House is just behind the trees over there, but we'll do Chalford Park in a future video. So let's go and have a look further down the lake. So I've now come further down the lake and I found all these Canada geese with their gozzlings swimming around on the water. Chalford Park House is just that way. A little way. You used to be able to look across the lake and you've got a really nice view of the house, but you can't see that now because it's all so grown up along there. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to carry on along the lake that way and I'll show you what's down at the other end. So here we are, another hundred or so yards down the lake. As it's fallen tree, I did think about walking across it, but I thought I didn't really fancy a swim if I tripped and fell in. Can't really see it on camera, but the water is so clear here, which is really nice. So as I said, Chalford Park House is just down there, but the trees have really grown up so much. You can't see it. I remember as a child, you used to look across there and you've got a really nice view of the lake at Chalford Park and the house behind. So what we're going to do now, we're going to continue along the footpath and we're going to go find the end of the lake. And then after that, this walk is going to get a bit complicated. There's a few points where I can access it, but I can't exactly follow the river, which I kind of have been able to do pretty much all the way from Little Missingdon to here. You can follow the river or keep fairly close. Beyond here, it gets complicated. It's going to involve having to go on any more roundabouts, but it's going to involve me walking along besides the A413 dual carriageway. And I'm not sure how I'm going to do that yet. If there's a sort of an easy verge to walk along, I will do that. But it might be that I have to kind of go off into just cross into the houses and come back down to where there's a footpath. But we'll see that in a moment. Still more of the lake looking very lovely and calm. Can you hear that sound, though? The sound of water. So that probably gives you an idea what we are coming up towards now at the end of the lake. It's just here. And we have a waterfall, the weir at the end of the lake. So if we have a look out here. Here it is. I remember paddling in there as a child. I used to come here. I actually used to be about here somewhere. There was more space. There were some picnic tables. We used to come here, have a picnic, paddle in the river. I even remember fishing once and I bought back a load of like little pond insects and built a pond in the back garden. And I was really disappointed because they all died like within a couple of days. But you know, when you're sort of eight years old, that's the kind of things you do. So yeah, there's the weir. I'm going to now carry on here. I'll show you the last point of contact we have with the river before it disappears through private grounds and eventually towards the Chilton main line, which we've got coming up. So there's a bridge here. So it's a private drive. It's a public footpath. So that way goes back into the Chalfont Park estate. If you continue up there, the footpath will take you up to the other side of Chalfont St. Peter. And this is where we last see the river. Now, this is where we finished the tributaries of the River Misborn video. So the tributary joins just there. If you look that way, you can again see the weir through the bushes. I'll just, since we did it last time, we did it the other way, we'll go this way. That's, because what I'm thinking is that tributary, when we did it, the tributary that flows in front of Chalfont Park had water in it at the beginning. It had a bit missing in the middle, but then down this end, it had water in it again. So I thought, let's go and have a look, see if it's got water. It looks like it has. So here we are up here. There's a ford. So when we were in the last video at Chalfont St. Gerald's, I said the ford and Mill Lane, our ford was the only ford on the River Misborn. As far as I'm aware, it's the only ford on the main course of the River Misborn, but there is this ford here on the tributary. So there's a bit of water in it still, but it's strange how there's a bit of water missing in the middle. So, I'll try and hit it with a bike to go through the ford. Yeah, so we'll go across here. So there's a confluence just behind that person's garden, and then the river, it goes off up there. I'm gonna go that way now, and I'm gonna try and find some more of the river, which is, like I said, might be easier said than done, but we're definitely gonna see some more Misborn today. So let's go and find it. I said it was gonna get a bit complicated as I came along here. I've come along the middle of the dual carriageway because someone has very kindly mown it way along, which made walking the last few hundred yards from Chalfant Park to here quite easy. But it's here where it gets, I can't really show you much, but you can probably just see some water through there. Now, if you look on the map, that's a weird dog leg off the river. So it's either one of two things. It's either a spring that flows out to the river that way, or it was made as like a fish pond. I'm not sure, fed by the river, but then the river itself is over there somewhere. I remember when I was a child, we used to come along this road, and as I gradually got taller, I started to notice you could see the river, and I'd always been intrigued to know exactly where the river went. And I knew about a footpath that crossed it, but as I got older and started looking at maps, I gradually worked it out. I'm now going to carry on along here and try and find a bit more of the miserable, and there is a footpath just up here, though, that we'll be able to go and get a better look at it. So I found the footpath which took me off the A413, just takes us down here past this field, and the river is just up here. If I was to follow this all the way, I'd come up to Denham Lane, which is the road which runs from higher Denham through to the top end of Charleston, Peter. I'm not gonna go all the way up there because it's quite a long way, and I wanna stick to the river. Now, on the other side of that fence, it's private now, but I believe was an old mill, but from what I see here, I'm starting to wonder if perhaps the mill might have been here. So if anyone wants to comment and tell me, please do, because if we have a look here, we've got the main course of the river there, and there's another course here which is dried up. Now, I came down here a couple of weeks ago, and there was water in this one, not a lot, admittedly, but now it's dried up, so it must be that it obviously only flows when the main course is of a certain height. Water flows through here, but the fact is that there's two courses, and I don't know if you can see it, but down there, there is some masonry. It's very hard to see. I know it's quite overgrown. So my guess is that the mill might have actually been here, so I'm effectively standing on an island now. So I think the mill possibly was here, but if anyone wants to comment and tell me whether I'm right or wrong, I'd be grateful to hear from you. And now we come to this bridge, which takes us over the main course of the river Miesborn. So that's a really, really nice tranquil bit of river there and flows off underneath us. There is another footpath soon. Now this footpath is quite interesting. It goes around into this field. As you can see, there's some cows. You pretty can't see it, but up over there is the motorway. So this footpath further up because over a bridge over the motorway, the water goes off down there. You can see there's, if you wonder why there's a fence into the river, I think what they've done, they've created a little section for the cows to come and drink the water, which to me would say it might be safe to drink this water, but I wouldn't want to drink the water from down there. I can see also, I know the camera might not be picking it out, but there's cows right over there. Some of them have got calves, so I'm not gonna, well, the footpath actually goes around the field. We're not gonna go into there. I don't want to disturb them. I'm gonna now head back to the A413 and find the next footpath, which also comes up over the Misborne in this direction. So to give you an idea of what the last bit of the walk's been like, I've been walking along this busy main road. I'd not want to be that cyclist. This is the A413, so I've walked along here along the verge. It's not been particularly pleasant and come to this area here, all for this public footpath here. There's actually a public bridal way. And this is where we're gonna find our final section of the River Misborne in today's video. So I'm now making my way along this bridal way. The M25 is just over there. That was the bridge, which I was standing underneath a moment ago. The river is just coming to join us now. And really beyond here going downstream that way, it's inaccessible for quite a long period. It's been quite difficult, as I said, getting to here, walking along the edge of that main road. I'm gonna follow the footpath and go back to Charleston, Peter, over the hill because I don't want to walk along the edge of the dual carriageway again. So the river is in there in amongst all the rushes. So it's a rather unusual bit of public footpath. I wonder who actually comes down here because it's a bit of a, once you get to there, where do you go? I suppose you can go up to Jaros Cross or Tatling End. But I wouldn't say it's the most exciting thing. I'd say, with my videos, always say, if you want to go and visit them, they're always places worth visiting. For today's one, I'd say, yes, go to Charleston Park. But what I'm doing now, unless you really, really want to see it, personally, I wouldn't recommend it. But that said, now we finally see the river again. I think this bit was worth coming for. So we've got a ford. So another ford, but this isn't a public road. It's a farm track, which doesn't look like it's ever used. There's a bridge here for me to cross. I haven't got to walk through the water. So here we go. So yeah, this is, I came down here when I was quite young. My dad and I came down here on our bikes and we rode through the ford. So I have been through the ford once. So the river goes off that way around behind the field with the cows in. And having a look on this side, you can see there's a viaduct. That is the Chalfont viaduct, also known as the Misborne viaduct. It takes the Chilton main line over the valley of the river Misborne. The construction was started in 1902. It was finished in 1906. So it actually worked on by one of my great-great-grandfathers. So that is also the motorway goes through it as well. So it was rather convenient when they built the motorway that the bridge was there, or the viaduct was there, because they could put the motorway through. And then somewhere down there, I'm going to try and get as close to it as I can. There's a culvert, and there's a train on the heading towards London Mariburn. Unfortunately, or fortunately, it's got watering, but unfortunately for me, I've got to somehow find my way across this bit here to continue on up there. So give me a moment. I'm going to try and cross the river and we should carry on. Well, I found my way across. And now we're going to walk up towards the viaduct. And somewhere beneath the viaduct is the culvert, which takes the river Misborne under the motorway. So this viaduct was originally built to carry the railway over the river. And there's another viaduct just a little way towards George Cross, which carries the railway over the road, the A413. So I had to walk under that one. I didn't make a video because it was the edge of a narrow road, but it was quite interesting. Now, I'm trying to show you the culvert, but I don't know if we can. It'd be interesting to, I wouldn't, but to walk through it when the river was dried up. But how, oh yeah, here we are. What can we see here? Okay, there's, yeah, I think we can see it. So yeah, that is where the river comes out from under the motorway. And this is where I'm going to leave today's video. We started at a culvert, we finished at a culvert. But with the viaduct in the background, before we go, I've got one more thing I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you what this scene looked like before the motorway. Have a look at this. So there we go, complete with first generation DMU. Hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. In the next video, I'm going to start in High Denim and we're going to go on to where the river is born, joins River Colm. So thanks very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment, tell your friends, tell anyone you think might be interested. Goodbye.