GUIDED WALKS

Walk through Amersham’s history!  Join our experienced guides to explore the town, find out about past inhabitants, and discover its fascinating buildings. Tickets are £6 for adults, children aged under 18 free.

We strongly recommending booking your tickets in advance to guarantee your place on our walks. While we will do our best to accommodate people on the day, places are subject to availability.

Please note that if you would like to visit the museum on the same day as one of our afternoon walks, this is possible from 12noon before the walk starts, but there is not time after the walk finishes.

Our walks include uneven surfaces, cobbles and country paths. If you have queries about accessibility or routes, please get in touch and we would be happy to provide you with detailed information.

Guided Town Walks

Join a guided walk of Amersham Old Town for a fascinating insight into the history of the town, its inhabitants and its development. Here you will see many of the details of the town that you may never have noticed before.

There are two versions of the Town Walk, held on alternate Sundays (April to October).

EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF AMERSHAM

• Early history of Amersham
• Local patronage and its influence
• Parish church and its rectors
• Brewery and the maltings
• Town Mill and the Charter Fair
• 17th century & Victorian almshouses

LATER EXPANSION OF OLD AMERSHAM

• The workhouses of Amersham
• Coaching inns and 18th and 19th century travel
• Social housing
• Cottage industries
• Post War development:
  • Brazils factory to Tesco
  • Gas Works to offices
  • Bus Garage to retirement homes
  • Workhouse to hospital

Both walks are 1.5 to 2 hours in duration. The walks leave from the museum at 2.30pm on Sundays. 

Guided Tudor Walk

Join a guided Tudor Walk to learn about life – and death – in 16th century Amersham

• Food and drink
• Markets and fairs
• Buildings and burgage plots
• Clothing and work
• Health and cures
• Religious beliefs and the Lollard martyrs

These walks are led by guides in Tudor costume and start from the museum at 2.30pm on the last Saturday in each month (April to September). 

The walk visits the church (weddings permitting!) then leaves the town and follows field paths. It includes a steady climb, which is taken slowly. Baby buggies have successfully managed the route and we did once get a mobility buggy up the hill! Be warned, if you pay for parking, that the walk usually lasts about 2¼ hours.

Amersham Film and TV locations – Midsomer Murders & More

Our proximity to Pinewood Studios and the charm of Amersham and surrounding villages has made the area a popular location for the British Film Industry from the earliest days to the present.

In 1919, Wilfred Noy directed As He Was Born, a silent comedy that has not survived but photographs taken show a temporary statue of the Mayor of the fictitious town next to our Market Hall. A more recent comedy Cuckoo (2012-2019) was filmed in Amersham’s Memorial Gardens which has been awarded the Britain in Bloom gold medal.

In 1960 the area around the Market Hall served as a French town in Circus of Horrors and a Miss Marple film, Murder at the Gallop starring Margaret Rutherford was filmed here in 1963. The Crown Hotel and the King’s Arms featured in Oscar-nominated Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). The first episode of Midsomer Murders, The Killings at Badger’s Drift used Amersham’s historic High Street in 1997, and film crews have returned regularly including for the 100th episode. A recent episode, Last Man Out, was filmed in High & Over, the first Modernist house built in England. This building featured in Pathé News shortly after it was built in 1931 and has subsequently been the perfect setting for conveying luxury in Poirot and The Time of Their Lives. Amersham was also the ideal town for bringing up families in The Midwich Cuckoos (2022).

Midsomer Murders & More takes visitors to all these locations and more, in a circular four-mile walk.

Circus Of Horrors (1960) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Murder at the Gallop (1963) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Killings at Badger’s Drift | Midsomer Murders Wiki | Fandom
High & Over The House of a Dream 1931 Bing Videos
The Time of Their Lives (2017) – IMDb
The Midwich Cuckoos (TV Series 2022) – IMDb

For all walks pre-booking is recommended.

The museum welcomes pre-arranged walks for groups outside normal museum opening hours, during the day or in the evening. Special walks for groups or schools can be organised at any time of the year.

Self-Guided Walks

Amersham Tudor Walk

Little Chalfont to Amersham Stations

Chess Valley Walk

Drovers’ Walk  

Upcoming Walks