A day in a picturesque English village (only 41 minutes from London) 

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You’ve made me realise that I shouldn’t watch people who steal your content, when you have done all the hard work.

I think that you and Alana from Adventures & Naps would make a great double act, as you are now both doing mini travel blogs

Thank You ! 🥰.. As a East Londoner I get so annoyed when I hear people Moan/Whinge/Complain about London & our Island is " finished ". We have our issues like every other nation and yet we only need jump on a bus/train/drive for 30mns and long gone is the concrete jungle and misery guts attitude as you enter countryside & market towns/villages of the Britain we love. The natural beauty is breath taking and has been a destination for us as a family for over 30yrs that most Sunday's we go for a drive to the coast or find a Sunday lunch in a beauty spot. We always forget how lucky we are to have such beauty and history at our finger tips if we only just reach out and want to touch it.

Nothing better than visiting a quintessentially British village on a week day and have a stroll around the town and countryside.

Great Missenden would be a perfect day trip out of London for tourists wanting to just get a feel of an English country village/ small town, but without the time to venture further afield. Thanks for sharing your lovely trip!

GGL knocks it out of the park again. Your channel has evolved from good to epic (Well I am a brit, so for the most part my ego, gets a little massage) If the English/British tourist board see this... maybe offer her a contract to advertise in the Anglosphere!

Found your channel through JJLA, and subscribed some time ago, as he encouraged viewers on his channel to do. I do like his videos because of the added perspective he gives on the videos you post on views about England from Americans, but I have also been watching your original content because I saw his videos, so it doesn't *just* steal content, it does drive viewers to your channel too! I see others have also come from JJLA recently as a result of his reaction to your video about reaction channels. I'd loooooooove to see you reacting to his video about that! Do it!

came here from JJLA, realised I should have subbed to you, too. Apologies.

It's so nice to have this beautiful village that's 41 minutes from London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 here! Thanks for sharing, Kalyn, and have a beautiful weekend! ❤

i have watched your channel on JJLA Reats, and have come straight over to you and subscribed, I love hearing what you have to say about us Brits. love it Thank you for all your posting x

You have a great voice for a travel log. I really enjoy all your videos.

Another great video kalyn gorgeous village

As an ex- Brit, to people who have already done the London thing, I always recommend the London to Portsmouth route. With a big natural harbour, it has been a very important and popular port. As such it was one of the most important and heavily used roads in the country. The old road has been replaced by the A3, but still exists. More usefully, the rail line that joins the two cities is extremely well served. It runs through a series of towns and villages, some like Guildford are big county towns, while smaller villages like Godalming and Chiddingfold also have little stations. Most of these towns date back millennia, but with the development of sailing they became important for people travelling to and from London and Portsmouth. There are numerous coachhouses and inns, where everyone from Elizabeth 1 and Peter the Great stayed, there are also areas outside some of these inns where prisoners being transported to Australia were chained over night. Guildford has the remains of a Norman castle, - which is close to Lewis Carroll's old home (writer of Alice in Wonderland) - it also has a cobbled high street and buildings of many styles - in fact while a lot of the high street has a Georgian appearance, many are just facades attached to the front of Tudor buildings. Godalming is considered one of the best towns in the country to live in, lots of half timbered shops and houses, a significant coachhouse and tucked away on one side of the town is a rather impressive memorial to Jack Philips, a one time national hero. I believe the memorial was paid for with national donations? He was the 25yr old radio operator who stayed at his post calling for help as the Titanic sunk. Surrounding the towns is some beautiful countyside, which along with its easy access to London has made it the home of the rich and famous for a long time. Portsmouth itself is still home to the British fleet and has several attractions like the Mary Rose, and the Victory there and open to the public. Another useful thing on the route are the trains which vary their stops, from Waterloo you can chose express trains which only stop at one or two stops, or slow trains that stop everywhere. It means you can take in a couple of smaller towns in a day, then when you’re tired, grab an express and be back at Waterloo in about 35 minutes from Guildford. I also suggest that people don’t get back to Waterloo and head straight for the tube! Especially if you are headed to north london. Walk from the station across one of the bridges. Westminster Bridge takes you right across to the houses of parliament and Waterloo Bridge has some of the best views of the city, including the buildings in the financial district and St Paul’s.

What a lovely picturesque place and I really enjoyed your narration and the research you did for that. TY GGL.

I used to live just down the road, tiny village called Little Kingshill, outside High Wycombe, and in Woodburn Green again outsde High Wycombe. Its a very beautiful area with many tiny villages and towns. The countryside is incredible and i spent endless hours walking through it, enjoying the fresh air and just sitting on top of the Chiltern Hills watching the World go by.... i still live in a similar place its just further away from London along the M40. Country life is lived at a far slower pace, without the hustle and bustle of a modern day large town or city. Its incredibly peaceful and no amount of money could make me leave here to live in a concrete jungle.

What a beautiful place ! I love the brickwork and that amazing flint church . Really enjoyed watching

Been watching to many people react to your videos so now I’m here to support you liked and subscribe 😂👍

Stunning Video! Thanks so, so much xxx

Another great video, Kalyn: you're a natural at this sort of thing, both as journalist and as presenter. Onwards and upwards, Honey!😀

An excellent piece of work Lass! thoroughly enjoyed it! If you keep them coming I'll continue watching.

❤ Love the new format. Very interesting. Thank you for the original video. Xxx

Loving the episodes in this new format, Kalyn (I appreciate the research that goes into them, too). Can't wait for more!😁

Great to see you out and about again, and an excellent video full of interesting stuff 👍

Excellent video Katelyn! I’d love to see more like this ❤

Newly subbed, found you through JJLA REACTS. Not sure if you've been to Cambridge, but I've lived here for the best part of my life and if you ever fancy a trip up this way I'd be happy to show you some sights.

Thank you for another great video

Lovely review, you should also think of visiting Henley, Elizabeth line to Twyford, then the branch line to Henley, or look into anywhere on the Thames

What a fun tour!!! Thank you, Kalyn! 😊

Enjoyed your video Kalyn. Looking forward to your next excursion vlog.

Massive fan of Roald Dhal books, including his adult works This was really interesting

Never been. It looks like a forgotten gem, that time forgot. Another great, well presented video. Keep up the great work.

A superb video about a village I had never heard of. Whilst I love your deep dive videos these outdoor videos are so relaxing as well as being well crafted and full of interesting details. Thank you.

The UK is the launch-pad for the Anglosphere. Therefore, people from the Anglosphere can also lay claim to the shared cultural heritage + historical connection to all that is visible in the UK.

Looks a beautiful place to live or visit. Thanks for another well put together informative video.👍

Wonderful video, thank you.

I lived in Aylesbury until 6yrs ago a wonderful area to live & bring up children I miss it terribly though I go back regularly to see my sons, friends & old neighbours glad you enjoyed your day

Hi Catlin I used to go to senior school in Great Missenden! It's a very pleasant place! Thanks for the vlog!!!! 😊 x.

When I was a schoolboy in Westminster, the Chilterns were a favourite school trip away - occasionally even a holiday long weekend camping trip. We'd often do a short concert at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and stay to play games with our age-mate patients. We took the Tube all the way, just changing once. Great Missenden was our camp site, and a serving of rock and chips in the village chippy was 1/-. ❤

Loving the new format it’s very informative. I was born in Amersham so I’m very familiar with Great Missenden and I managed to learn a thing or two. I moved to Cumbria and I miss the Chilterns but unfortunately HS2 has not contributed much to its natural beauty unfortunately. Keep up with the new format 👍👏👏

Good video GGL!! I love Roald Dahl books...As an adult I would recommend reading his short stories....VERY dark!! Also I hope your family are OK in Florida???

Excellent video Kalyn. Loved the narration.

Hi Kaylyn, Great Missenden is lovey I went to school there many years ago, and now live in Aylesbury a few stations away. You might want to travel to Wendover the next station on the line which is slightly larger but full of charm too, from Wendover you can walk up to Coombe Hill the highest point in the area with fantastic views across Aylesbury Vale and also see Chequers the Prime Minister country house. There are some great walks from here, I tend to explore this area too doing trail runs or Wendover Woods park run which is close too but very hilly. Good to see you taking an interest in Model Railways another of my hobbies. David

I was born and brought up in a "picturesque" country village. I had an idyllic childhood. Could've lived without the crockles.

Great video, Kalyn, but a small consideration maybe perhaps take a leaf out of Alana's Adventures And Naps playbook and invest in a gimbled camera such as from DGI, or maybe just a gimble for your phone if that's what you're filming with. Makes for fluid, smooth shots when out and about.

Excellent video. Makes a great change because everybody’s doing the difference between the UK and America It’s always a very similar thing and gets boring

Very interesting. Roald Dhal was a Cardiff lad, like myself, great to see the museum. In Cardiff there is the original wooden Nowgain church ⛪ he and his family attended when he was a child, on the bay water front. Although as good as a dedicated museum and such!

London Calling: The UK generally has a good rail system, however, the ticket pricing system is borderline unfathomable. The simplest way around this is to just buy a standard off peak return ticket (mostly travel after 9.30am weekdays and all day weekends). These tickets allow you get off the train at any one station on route to your specified destination and then board the next onward bound train so you can take in multiple destinations with one ticket. This is not the cheapest way of traveling by rail in the UK but it’s flexible and in my opinion worth the small extra cost.

Hi Kalyn Great Video. Not visited Great Missenden but have a friend who lives out in the sticks at swan bottom and have had meetings in Wendover. Should jump on the tube to Amersham and then get the chiltern train to there one day!

I absolutely love this video. Quite a departure. Great work as expected 🙂

I thought I saw you last Thursday (Oct 3rd) in Great Missenden outside Matilda's Bistro so glad to see my facial recognition is not as bad as I thought. Glad you enjoyed your day as the weather was great.

Another interesting video. Thank you.

Reminds me a bit of Salisbury. After our trip to UK last month York is my new favourite. It’s as magical as it is depicted in Harry Potter.

Hi GGL, I am enjoying your style and content. I noticed that one of your recent vlogs included a view from the Chilterns-Watlington Hill. You might have noticed west-ish around 5miles away some large buildings and a pale strip to the left. This is Chalgrove Airfield and one of its three runways. A 'Chalgrove Airfield' search will reveal that it was opened in 1943 and became Station 465 for the United States Army Air Force. Obviously if we tried to build this today the planning arguments would have taken a decade or two and then it would have been cancelled part way through construction but I digress. Chalgrove was one of three local air bases providing photo reconnaisence services, the others being Benson (opened 1939) and Mount Farm (USAAF) from 1943 home to Eighth Air Force as a photo reconnaissance station designation Station 234. A bit of research will reveal that this was an intense time for vital information gathering up to and after D-day. RAF Benson is still an active base, Chalgrove is operational for the Martin Baker company of ejector seat fame and Mount farm is now a smudge on the landscape but there is a memorial on the way into Berinsfield. These bases provide an example of American inolvement in WW2 and not neccessarily well known as the work and aircraft used were largely secret. I hope this might be of interest, Martin.

I've been to great missenden! absolutely crazy that its so close to London - really doesnt feel like it! Its like you're in a different country!!

'Im all about model trains' thats one of the best things you've said. You make great videos and am looking forward to a model railway one 😀

I grew up not terribly far away. Lovely part of the country. If you've not been yet, I recommend a visit to Ashridge Forest, heading from the Bridgewater monument to the village of Aldbury. To make a longer day, you could head on to Ivinghoe Beacon, the end point (or start) of the Ridgeway long distance footpath. Loads of scenery & history along the way.

Great tour. I have not been there.

Lovely video. I'm retired now, but Great Missenden and the Chiltern District were part of my working "patch" for many years. It really was a great job, so I am very lucky and I often had lunch at the Cross Keys. BTW you would have passed through my home town on the way - I would have waved had I spotted you! 😀👋

I was born and lived in Wendover next to village, the Wendover Railway Station is next Ridgeway Path and a South Africa War Monument on Coombe Hill which people can see the PM country house near it.

Wow, our nearest police station is eight miles away! But I am very remote in an Essex village. This was great thankyou. Weve never been to this place. Very interesting.

I came for a deep dive and got a travelogue as a bonus. Nice work.

Coming here from JJLA's channel. I'm glad you made that previous video about reactions. I love your content. Subbed. It would be nice to see the original videos linked prominently in the beginning of his, instead of added somewhere in the description, under his merch advert.

I went to school in Great Missenden when i was a kid, it's a lovely village, and really interesting to see it from the perspective of someone that has never been before. I've not made it to the roald dahl museum or grave yet, though 😂. But i have plenty of books he signed for us when i was growing up.

@GirlGoneLondonofficial. I love Great Missenden. It is a great find If you want some other tips for places near London, but a bit further north. Maybe try Ampthill and some of the villages around there. Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire have some real treasures I think you would like.

Definitely a nice place for a day out,I’ve been a few times over the years.. I’m lucky enough to live in a small village (Shere)near Guildford and that’s also good for a visit if you’re heading out to the Surrey Hills for the day.👍

Great video, I grew up in that part of the world. The reason why it was a backdrop for horror movies is Hammer Horror's headquarters was only a few miles away in Gt Hampden

Lovely video! I didn't know where Roald Dhal lived and was buried. The village is 1h 14m away by car

Love the videos. Have you thought about doing a Halloween tour video?

I once lived in a similar place south of London but that was in the sixties! it looked delightful! thank you! It was called Bourgh heath! in Surrey

An excellent review, you do your research. If you haven't visited it already, how about Bourton- on- the- Water ? Also Malvern, Ledbury, and Upton on Severn.

Ayyy I live really close to Great Missenden, when I was younger there was a Christian activity group that a lot of my friends went to called light house. Also one time I went to the village for a walk with my dad and a hot air balloon with a tear had a (safe) crash landing in the field as we were parking.

If you want some other picturesque villages in England - look at Bibury, Castle Combe and Clovelly if you are ever in those areas.

Hi Kalyn, Great overview of an interesting topic ..... the Big and the Small of SE England, and how they co-exist. Love your research investment to make this so enjoyable. Speaking of research, it looked like your interest might be piqued by 'collecting'. I am Irish, but have always been aware of the English fondnss for collecting. I'd be interested where that had moved on rhe social media age. Maybe traon spotting and stamp collecting are no longer as big, but what about model railway enthusiasts, or even things very modern that I don't yet imagine 😊

Like model trains & cute little villages? Visit Bekonscot model village just outside the market town of Beaconsfield, also accessible on Chiltern Railways

Yay! welcome to Bucks, my home county. i've lived around Missenden most of my life - Wycombe, Chesham, Gt Hivings and Hundridge. it really is a beautiful area during the summer and as you noticed, there are plenty of public footpaths that criss cross in all directions. you can walk very easily from Wycombe to Aylesbury, though it would take quite a while. if you haven't already, i would suggest a trip to Berkhamsted and/or Tring - slightly to the north and across the border in Hertfordshire. also Combe Hill near Wendover - you get an amazing view of the Vale of Aylesbury from the top.

Signal area whilst looking at a model railway magazine, "nice one Cyril".

Nice one.

Thank you for an engaging walk around. I like the idea of you visiting various places to cast your observations over them, it needs your opinions as well as the normal guidebook text. Why not vary it a bit by visiting the not so quaint places. I would be interested in your take on Milton Keynes for example, that is an English expression of American town planning. MK is only 34min from Euston but a world away from the history and sprawl of London.

Epping and Theydon Bois are worth a look and on the tube.

Awesome video :D

It's wild just how many enclaves in London itself are very leafy and villagey. Southgate, Hampstead and Highgate are of course London and have masses of history, but don't feel like London to me. Wimbledon Village too feels more countryside than city, in fact, some of the pedestrian crossings there have been modified for horse riders (there is an additional button higher up the post for people on horse back so they don't have to dismount).

If you’re currently into model trains, I’m assuming a Bekonscot video is coming? I spent far too much of my childhood there… or perhaps too little, as I still don’t own a train.

A large majority of the towns on the commuter belt. Within an hours ride or drive from London are now predominantly resided by ex Londoners, a lot of them were once evacuated children from the second world war. They decided to go and live in the safe rural shire market towns to which they were evacuated and cared for by new families. Alas it wasn't all rosey and milk and honey for every child evacuated. Some had a miserable time and were abused used as slaves. And a lot of people coming back to live in the wealthier parts of London are blissfully aware that they via their grandparents are actually Londoners, come home to roost. You can still find villages a lot closer to London and even within London.

You should come to Somerset there are some lovely places here

Just a fortunate coincidence that they built a church at the end of Church Lane.

Hi Kaylin. Just to let you know that after seeing your video about reactors stealing, yep that's what they are doing your content. I unsubscribe from Tyler Rumples channel. Always though he was a twat. Love your channel. Just watched JJLA react to your video. Quite remorseful. Keep up the great videos.

Cracking job, I really enjoyed that. I even enjoyed the promotion (I’m one of those sad people that like ‘toy trains’.) Sorry.

Does the Crosskeys still have a jar of claypipes on the bar?

Did I hear English sarcasm? No idea why Church Road is called this as it leads to the church.Nearly every where has a Church Road 😸

Are there any Churches within proximity of Church Lane? We English are quirky like that!!!

Model Railways, but what scale? I prefer N Scale myself. 1:160. Mostly American and continental railways.

Commonwealth War Graves - that has to be a topic with Armistice Day (11 November) and Remembrance Sunday (second Sunday in November) approaching. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's headquarters is in Maidenhead. For those interested in Roald Dahl, the 1990 film of The Witches was partly filmed on location in a village just north of Maidenhead.

Take a look at Suffolk

OK. I'm sold. Have a subscribe.

Try St Albans

that graveyard is in bad shape I would have thought the upkeep would have been better

Great Missenden is lovely, but don't take your car.

Kalyn, dear girl (if I may be so bold)...if you're promoting a product, my understanding is that a video should flag 'paid promotion' on the screen. Frankly, as soon as a channeler starts doing their pitch, I skip over that until they're experiencing again whatever they're experiencing. Kind of see these recent views of the countryside as a new departure for you - a change from you sitting in front of a camera at home. Interesting. Robert, uk.

What is it about the American habit of referring to "vines" everywhere in the countryside or covering old houses / cottages etc?!! We call it _IVY_ and there are different types, such as the variegated type which has darker and lighter green foliage within the same leaf. ... I know you have (& don't like?) "poison ivy" in the US, but we have "stinging nettles" which have "hairy" leaves and it's the fine hair-like leaf coverings which cause the intense stinging felt if you brush up against them with bare skin, if wearing shorts, shirt dresses, short-sleeved shirts etc... The stinging sensation can be eased by rubbing the stung skin with dock leaves - which usually - and fortunately - grows near to wherever stinging nettles grow - which is usually in rough, untended ground, such as waste grounds, neglected gardens, or in woodlands etc, often close to pathways and tracks, where they can catch passersby unawares!! However, from what I've heard of "poison ivy" it's _much worse_ than 'stinging nettles', so if prepared, and if stung you use a dock leaf to soothe the stinging sensation, after which, you can generally recover quite quickly, and should know next time you're out and about anywhere the nettles grow (and they are quick grown plants which soon spread to large areas unless kept under control) to avoid touching them...though, apparently if clean, cooked or served in a salad, (or a soup) they are quite nutritious - although, I cannot vouch for the validity of nettle soup or nettle salad being as nice as these "recipes" indicate!! _Ivy_ however, does not sting, or cause health problems, though I don't think they're edible - unlike nettles, apparently! Ivy does sometimes cause damage to brickwork, however as it finds it's way into any cracks in the bricks or the pointing, and may then let water in which will cause problems of a different kind... I'm no gardener*, so invite others who know better to correct any errors I may have made here... ...Though I do have a sprig of Ivy* growing through the air-vent in my bedroom wall!! (I call it my pet Triffid!!😮)