This hilltop hamlet of some 40 dwellings is accessible only by steep, single-track lanes and can be cut off during harsh winter weather. Settlement here dates back to Anglo Saxon times and it is thought that the track through the village was a Medieval packhorse route. Why were the earliest known human settlements in this area, like Dunsmore and Little Hampden, on the hard-to-reach hilltops rather than in the valleys? Part of the reason is probably that ponds could be dug into the layer of clay-with-flints that caps the hillsides to provide a year-round source of water. In contrast, the valley bottoms sit on porous chalk and are almost permanently dry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsmore,_Buckinghamshire
nationaltrust.org.uk/chilterns-countryside/trails/the-hampdens-trail

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Location: Wendover, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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