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Che Chiltern Country.* 
(Continued from page 20.) 
AKE Sheet No. 7, of the Ordnance Survey of England and 
Wales, and cut it in half by a north and south line, and the 
western moiety will include nearly the whole of the district which 
T describe as the Chiltern Country. Two portions of the map, 
however, are still superfluous, and should be shaved off, namely, 
the triangular corner of the vale of Aylesbury, N.W. of the 
Icknield way, and the whole of the southern third of the sheet, 
following the course of the old Bath Road through the villages of 
Iver, Wexham, Farnham, Burnham, and Hitcham, and thence the 
course of the River Thames as far as Henley. The Road and the 
River taken in this way will form the Southern boundary of the 
Forest. 
The old road crossed the river Thames, as far as I can make 
out, by a ferry in the parish of Taplow, near the island of Formosa. 
The place is or was called Babham End. Thence the road passes 
through the village (once ranking as the town) of Cookham, and 
winding up the hill enters the long waste of open country which 
goes under the names of Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead Thicket, 
and Stubbings Heath, and then the tract of woodland called the 
Frith, passing through thevillages of Shottesbrook, the Walthams, 
Ruscombe, and Twyford. The Berkshire Frith, as we learn from 
Leland and other early travellers, was in as bad repute as the 
Buckinghamshire Chiltern. It merged southwards in the wide 
forest of Windsor. : 
Here we have our map of the forest ready for use. About the 
centre of the map the ancient towns of Missenden, Amersham, 
Wycombe, and Beaconsfield form a sort of Quadrilateral. 
The Chiltern forest seems to have consisted principally of beech 
woods, of which extensive remains are still left. The valleys were 
* ERRATA in No.1. First portion of this paper, page 18, third line from 
the bottom, for creatures read features. age 20, sixth line from the bottom, 
for Five Rolls read Fine Rolis. 
