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Swan’s Way Linear The 65 miles Swan’s Way long distance bridle route runs from Walk Salcey Forest in the north to Goring-on-Thames in the south Features of Interest 4 A m o d e r n building just to the east is the The bridle route crosses a A.R.C. Wildfowl very wide variety of scenery starting at Salcey c e n t r e a n d Forest in Northamp- nature reserve tonshire, then across the c r e a t i n g a Ouse valley, offering fine valuable nature resource from v i e w s a n d p a s s i n g through part of the wet gravel pits. growing new city of Milton Vi s i t o r s a r e Keynes. South of Milton w e l c o m e b y Keynes is the Vale of appointment. Aylesbury with its hilly areas of Waddesdon and Quainton. Swans 5 The Grand Union Canal, built between 1793 Way follows the chalk scarp of the Chiltern Hills and 1805, runs through Milton Keynes. It with its beechwoods, valleys and views down provided a vital link between London and the to the Thames at Goring. Industrial Midlands but today it is used for 1 Salcey Forest is a large remaining area of leisure purposes. Ancient Royal Hunting Forest of over 1200 acres. The Forestry Commision have provided 6 Between Stantonbury rides, walks including those for the disabled and New Bradwell the and a picnic area. The south eastern part of the ride follows a disused forest mature oaks, hazel and ash is an branch railway line important nature reserve, with grassland rides which was closed in and woodland margins being valuable for 1964, now providing a butterflies, moths and birds. cycleway, footpath and bridleway. 2 The church of St. James the Great in Hanslope Bradwell Windmill was with its slender and graceful spire is a notable built around 1817 and landmark. The spire, rebuilt after being struck ceased working in 1876. It has now been by lightening in 1804 rises from