National Trust - Ashridge Estate

Area of outstanding beauty, that words say everything. 🥰 ... It's a marvellous place, with amazing ancient trees and charming surroundings... It's very worth it for a long and short walk. Great and peaceful walks and paths all around.

Great site for a walk with ample free parking mostly on a field so might be difficult depending on time of year and weather. Many marked walks are available plus there are numerous paths within the woods to follow. The cafe is small but plenty of outdoor seating is available although it can get busy I would guess as we visited on Easter Sunday maybe there was more than a normal Sunday and while we had to q to get served it was pretty efficient. Great views between the trees and displays of blue bells carpeting the ground when we visited on early April.

Went from here to follow the windmill walk. Loads of free parking. There is a place to get food, ice cream and other facilities right next to the monument. Lots of open space and woodland to explore so this is a this is a very popular location.
Some of the pathways are solid with stone included so you can get away with sturdy trainers if it is relatively dry.
The circular wall to the windmill with a slight detour took just over 2 hours at a brisk pace. Well worth it for the views.

A really beautiful place to visit. Car park busy but found space. A good walk through the bluebells.
Hint to self: go two weeks earlier next year as they were past their best. Despite this a fantastic walk with beautiful weather. Trees looking great and lots of birds about.

So wonderful to have free access to these wonderful woods. My only even better if would be for the starting point of the walks to be signposted. It's not especially clear from the map where each of the walks can be picked up. A total wow would be if there was an app available for download with the walking routes mapped out, but appreciate that would be considerably more effort. In any case a wonderful site to visit for all the family and your dogs too, just please remember to pick up after your pooch!

its a nice place only one draw back which i felt was restaurants, tower and toilet timings they all close around 5sh, may be in winter time its okay but in summer long days this is too early, apart from this little hassle rest every thing is perfect what you expect for a day trip, a large parking area not difficulty of parking, nice walking tracks area for bbq and a large play ground, as a whole its not a bad place to day picnic. one thing need to be care full is you walking on a rain day it might be muddy all around

Lovely spot for a walk, an ice cream and an explore. Made it up the tower just in time before it closed at 4pm, great views of the area. Lovely chat with one of the volunteers at the entrance. Book nook is a cool idea. The driveway is in need of the pot holes repairing.

Well kept and very interesting. Climb the monument if you want to try out vertigo! Cafe and lovely picnic areas with loads of parking