The Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers 324 square miles from the River Thames in southern Oxfordshire to Hitchin. It contains some magnificent landscapes where the underlying chalk rock has given rise to quiet valleys, streams and hillsides of velvety downland. The Chiltern Society PhotoGroup has rather arbitrarily decided where the Heart of the Chilterns lies and has selected a few landscape photos to illustrate its beauty.
The photos were taken in 2019 unless otherwise indicated.