 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the beautiful village of Little Missingdon in Buckinghamshire This is where we're going to continue our walk along the River Missbourne But first, I thought I'd just start by showing you the beautiful 13th century church of St John the Baptist Not open today, unfortunately But I have been inside. There's some amazing wall paintings which were only rediscovered in about 1931 and it's one of the churches where they sometimes do cream teas on a summer Sunday So, you know, it is somewhere worth coming to visit. So what we're going to do, we're gonna leave the church yard We're gonna go and find the River Missbourne. Now where I ended the last video Down at the end of the Missingdon Abbey Parkland I said that the river becomes quite inaccessible. My next part I thought probably would access the river would be Suffolk's Bridge, which is about half a mile down the lane that way I've had a look. There isn't a lot to see really There's the bridge and there's a thick head. So you can hardly see the river. So I thought what we'll do We'll re-pick up the river by going down this public footpath just here And that's where we shall be able to find the River Missbourne. I'll just let you have another beautiful look at the church We'll find the River Missbourne and then we'll continue Following it where we can and we'll eventually end up in Amisham and carry on through the Chalfont So come down this footpath here into this field I can see the bypass the same bypass we saw in part one in Great Missingdon the one that allegedly broke a tunnel and So that was the old road the old A413 which runs from London all the way up to Buckingham Now I can I can get some glimpses of the river in there, but that's someone's garden So what I think must happen the river currently is over there We might be able to see up here So it looks like it kind of does a big meander round here like this. So There with me I should show it to you in a moment That's interesting now. I can't see any river at all Maybe what I could see over there was a pond or a spring so if anyone knows there appears to be some water Behind the church if that is or isn't part the River Missbourne There goes a church pulse. Please comment. Let me know. Well, here we are here Definitely is the River Missbourne and it seems to have already since Great Missingdon. It's got quite a lot bigger You know at the beginning it was really was just a little trickle now because it's You know not a massive river, but you know it feels like it's a much bigger river It's not just a stream more like Real River So it then flows through there. It looks very nice in there. That's all private. So we won't be going in there Flow through there what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go back into the village and see where we can next see the River Missbourne So here we are in the center of Little Missingdon If you go up a little lane that way you come to Homer Green. You can see the sign says Wend over Nailsbury, of course there will also be Great Missingdon I think that arms and broken off this one But it would say Amish and probably the chow font. So this is the old road as I mentioned earlier There's now a bypass just over there now this house here. It's quite interesting This is the manhouse and if you somebody watches Midsummer Murders and you think this and this whole village Scene looks familiar then that's because this has featured in Midsummer Murders over the years I'm not entirely sure which episodes but it definitely has been in Midsummer Murders a few times They quite regularly use the Chiltern villages for filming the fictional county of Midsummer and Causton the main The county town of Midsummer is either filming but sometimes it's Beckinsfield or Amish in various other towns will come to Amish in Later on the video. There's a really interesting sign there Homer Green that way high teeth that way. So that's the village center I'm gonna take you down this little lane here Which Goes up towards the bypass. I'm not into one of these ones. I'm not so sure exactly how I'm gonna find it But what I'm hoping is we shall find the rhythm is born just up here Because I've obviously it comes in this direction. So Shouldn't have to go far. It might be a bit like how it was in part one in Great Missingdon It's there, but you can't see it So just gonna keep looking really and I Think Okay, yeah, I have found it, but it's all private land. It's literally Here Now the cameras we're not gonna pick it out But there is a rather large fish in there I'm not someone who knows much about fishing and it's not like I can really show it to you for anyone who does know It's a pretty big fish So what I'm gonna do now Let's go for somewhere where we can find the river and we can see a bit better I'm gonna carry on walking through to the other side of the village center So I've walked through Little Missingdon village center and I have found the River Missbourne There's this rather beautiful old mill house here and here's the river I think it was once as many as about 11 mills along the course of the River Missbourne And as we can see like this one they remain but not in use this one is now a house if we go across The road though you can see the mill pond So yeah, it's a bit overgrown and then the river flows off down there, but and again I know I said it earlier. I couldn't show it to you. I saw a big fish There's lots of little minnows in this mill pond, but we're now gonna head off Down in that direction as a footpath Just up there where those cars are parked and We're gonna go through the shard loads of state and see what we see of the River Missbourne along there So I'm now walking along this path from Little Missingdon towards Amersham We'll take us through the shard loads of state and you can see the river Just along the middle of the field along this section There would have once been watercress beds and with the coming of the railway They could have taken the watercress up to London, you know quite quickly well near as rail station to here I suppose right now. We're probably about halfway between Amersham and Great Missingdon But the railway line is just up there where those trees are So yeah, the river flows along here and it's already getting wider It feels like it's really got quite a lot wider here But as we should discover later on it does kind of get smaller almost goes more back to being a stream again We're gonna so as I said, we're gonna continue on up here We're gonna go through the shard loads of state and you'll see just how much wider the river is due to get Now I'm walking through the beautiful Humphrey Repton laid out parkland of the shard loads of state There's shard loads house up there. I've already done a video on this So have a look on the link on screen now. You can watch that video and I'll tell you about shard loads house That sort of a miserable and well, it really really has grown. Look at it It's a hugely wide lake now. It's really opened out. This is obviously man-made They've dug it out to make it this lake. This isn't the natural river But even this I've seen this river this part of the river rather dried up I've seen it dried up all the way through except beyond Chalfont Park They're the only bits. I've not seen it dried up So I've never been out into there when it's dried up, but it's amazing to think that dries up Thankfully, I haven't seen it dried up for at least 20 years and it's still got water in so hopefully You know that won't ever happen again, but yes a really pleasant part of a miss born what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna continue walking through the shard loads of state in the direction of Amisham And then we will continue to follow the river miss born from Amisham through the Chalfonts eventually down to Denham to its source but let's just Have one last look at the Humphrey Repton Parkland and the shard loads house And before I go just look at how vast that lake is it really stretches on as far as the eye can see I'm gonna carry on walking now and um go to the end of the lake and beyond I'll now just come to the end of the shard loads of state On the gate cottages there And um from which you see the river again, it will no longer be the large lake That we were following it'll be back Not down to quite the small trickle it was at Little Missingdon Um or before Little Missingdon rather, but it will be You know, it won't be the big river it was now Haven't been this way for a while. I think we need to go here literally into the hedge. This is a path. It just seems to have Looked a bit overgrown. So yeah, we're going in here. We're at a funny area now where the Amisham bypass goes well round Amisham obviously So the old town is in that direction and then the footpaths have all been A bit altered. So where we came out there the drive to shard those probably would have gone Well, I'm not sure exactly where but it's all been changed put it that way for the bypass as for the river. Well river is Just down here And the fact that they've had to bridge the bypass made a very useful footpath bridge as well. So here we are. Look, it's um Quite a bit smaller than when we last saw it. If we go here Underneath the bypass you can see The actual sides of it. So um, yeah, I agree. This isn't the prettiest section of the river I should remember though when I was in scouts we came here once we had to build a bridge Under here. So we put like a barrel In the water and it they did it on purpose. So you couldn't do it with one plank And then we had to get two planks and we got across there So I have stood on the other side of there. So yeah, that was quite a fun game one evening Carrying on underneath the road the river now flows off into more bushes. Um, but actually it flows under The road into Amisham. So if you choose not to use the bypass You'll go That way into Amisham I end up up here beside the bypass. So in order for me to show you more of the river I'll have to continue walking Just along here beside the bypass into Amisham old town and I shall See you further along a little bit So I have now made it to Amisham old town I'm just going to let you have a quick look. There you are down the beautiful high street now When we're in Little Missenden I talked about mid summer murders and how Little Missenden They sometimes film some of the villages. Well Amisham old town is sometimes used for filming of Causton in the series Now if we come to here we find River Missbourne again Just here and there is a beautiful old mill. This is Mill Lane So you can see the mill and here the river emerges from Underneath the mill And flows off down there behind these cottages. So what we'll do is just going to have a look We can follow it down it goes into a park and um We shall keep going Following it right through. There's some really beautiful parts of the river in old Amisham So I'm going to go down this path here and show you a bit more of River Missbourne as we go So the footpath has brought me out into this park and I think it's a really nice section of the River Missbourne You've got the high street over there and quite a lot of the properties of these little bridges Which take them out into the park So um, yeah, this is quite a pleasant section of the river. So I'm going to carry on Following it along here and what we're going to do. We're just going to keep going There's a bit in a minute where we cannot see the river. So we'll have to then leave the river again Well, it is a pub there even the pub's got its own back door, which you have to access the river Over one of these bridges. So I'm just going to keep walking really because what happens in this corner You can see the river again disappears from public rights away So I'm going to have to go around the back of all the houses and we should pick the river up again further And we'll carry on and see what we find but we've got the best bits of Amisham Ahead of us. So once I get to the other side of where the room flows under that building I shall show you what there is to see So from the park I was in I've just come for a little walk around the housing estate and I've come down this Way here it comes to a place called Pondswick meadow. It says on that stone There it says it's a community orchard and nature area So this must be where we shall find the Mistborn again now. You can see some of these old mill houses I think these possibly old mortings. I could see them from where we were So from what I'm thinking is the river should appear In that corner there. I think I pretty much know it's going to so let's go over there and see I know it's getting a bit windy now. Um, but let's just have a little wander around So yeah, so there's a little place here hidden away behind old Amisham This is known as old Amisham. New Amisham is up where the railway station is sort of something's known as Amisham on the hill. So here's the river There's another pub there with a back door which you can access via a bridge Just see the parish church over there. That's where we're going to head for next once we've been around to here I love how some people got like a little gate and it says private and that's you know, that's their back Entrance to their property, which I think it's a really nice way of, you know, accessing your property I'd love that to have a little bridge. Ideally for me a property have a bridge over river on one side and a railway on the other that would be perfect There's some Very pleasant little houses so the river flows along there and it looks like it disappears and shall Re-emerge just over there near the church. So let's just go to the end here Just might as well see as much of it as we can possibly see and then see where we end up. So yeah, we get to these little bridges again Three bridges in a row. Not three bridges in Sussex, but three bridges Right, I'm going to carry on to somewhere over there. I can see the next culvert So I'm going to go over there and show you more of the river Missbourne I'm now making my way back towards Amisham town centre The Missbourne is somewhere below the road here So the main high street is just over there Here is the parish church And the Missbourne is flowing in a direction these lime trees So it must literally be underneath this building right here When I say that I know it is because I've been coming to Amisham all my life So I know exactly where it goes. It appears just here From outside or underneath the building So here we are reunited with the Missbourne This was built in 1634 because I can see it on the keystone there I've always thought it looked really nice in there But it's all private properties, so I've been in there So we're now going to follow the river Missbourne past the church And I'll show you as much as I can now because Now we can access the trackbed Sorry not trackbed, mine's on railways because I often do old railways Access the riverbed and the river itself much easier now than we could back there So we're going to keep following the river along here Leaving behind the church yard And the river takes us along here Taking a bend up here and it flows behind Amisham To me this is one of the most pleasant parts of the river Missbourne There is, it's all unspoiled, you know, it's just a really really nice bit of river I think So you can see around there under the bridge just up there And then I'm going to take you over the bridge If you go up the hill, you walk up there, it's quite a nice walk you can do Up through the woods and eventually it comes around Amisham station, it's not far That's actually quite a nice walk if you came up from London on the train to Amisham You could walk down down to Amisham Old Town Perhaps have a beer in a pub or a coffee and then get the train back So we're just going along here Over there on the other side of the wall there's quite a nice little garden I have been in there before and I did once make a video so Put a link into that now and you can have a look at that So yeah very pleasant I'm going to carry on walking here The river goes behind Tesco's and on towards Charleston Peter So yeah I'm going to keep going So the river Missbourne is now flowing along behind Tesco's and beside the car park Which is just over there, you can just see the Tesco's car park through here This is Station Road, so this goes up to Amisham on the hill Or Amisham New Town, that's where the railway station was And here is the Missbourne, so it flows off in that direction There's an interesting bit over there because it splits So we'll go and have a look at that and takes two separate courses And then they rejoin the other side once we get out of Amisham And we shall continue walking towards Charleston Jals and Charleston Peter So there's this little bit here where we can go beside the river I appreciate you can't really see the river particularly well with all of these bushes growing up And then somewhere here, I'm not sure or maybe there's a culvert running under here somewhere But when we get to the other side of the road I'll show you how we have Two sections of river, so we just need to get across the road first Shouldn't be too busy today I'll take my chances in the afternoon So we come across the road, there's this modern development here Have you ever looked? We've got a small section of river Missbourne Which flows along there and then it's culverted under this abandoned garage But I can already see the next section, maybe it's just a little spring that Comes up there, I don't know if anyone does know You know like as usual please do comment and tell me I always like to hear You know if there's a little bit I'm not sure if you want to fill me in You know please do So we're just walking across the forecourt of this garage And oh yeah and here we are look we have the two rivers joining each other So the one I just showed you comes out here And here is the main course Look how low the actual arches are, I don't know if you can see the brick arches Ah it seems, I mean this is really high, this is the highest I've seen the Missbourne for Quite a long time So I'm going to walk down to this willow here where the two Courses even though the other one's quite overgrown the two courses converge I've got to then cross the river because I'm going to go up that footpath over there where that gate is And we should carry on we'll get outside Amisham bypass and that's where I'll finish The Amisham section of the River Missbourne video So as we come towards the end of our Amisham section of the River Missbourne We're here in this man-made woodland because the bypass is just over there The path is here and we follow this path and what happens Somewhere around here where we see exactly where in a moment When they built the bypass they diverted the course of the Missbourne And when it was drying up in Chalfonson Peter for sometimes a few years on end They say it seems to be since they built the bypass so You know it seems there is some correlation there that you quite often see it flowing in Amisham But then it would dry up beyond there but then there have been times where it has dried up Before they built the bypass and the fact that chalk streams naturally do dry up I'm not sure really whether the bypass has affected the river or not But they say it has but about here I appreciate you can't see the river very well But the river takes a sudden kink like that which is no longer its natural course So go underneath the bypass and a bit like on the other side of Amisham They've used it as an opportunity to put a public footpath through But the bypass at the other side I don't think actually altered the flow of the river here Otherwise there'd be a very long skewed bridge so it seems what they've done They've decided it'd be more convenient for them if the river flew through You know at angles like that so right now it's really great to see it's flowing really nicely So hopefully we won't ever have these kind of things I'm not saying it won't ever dry up again, I expect it will But hopefully it won't ever dry up for years on end like it has in the past I'm now going to carry on all the way down here towards Chamberson Peter and Chamberson Giles And we'll do Chamberson Peter, Chamberson Giles and beyond in the next video So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment, tell your friends etc And why not come for a walk in the Mistborn Valley, goodbye