The area is mostly low-lying, and the highest place is at Clipper Down at in the far south eastern corner near to Ivinghoe Beacon in the Ivinghoe Hills.

Hillforts are usually attributed to the Iron Age, but there are a series of hillforts at intervals along the Chiltern ridge and that at Ivinghoe Beacon, which is not far away, has been excavated and found to have been built in the late Bronze Age.

While physically quite prominent, Ivinghoe Beacon is not the highest point in the Chilterns, which is a few miles to the west at Haddington Hill near Wendover.

Flying model gliders at Ivinghoe Beacon

Scenes for feature films, such as Quatermass 2, Batman Begins and The Dirty Dozen have been shot at Ivinghoe Beacon.

The Buckmasters were a prosperous farming family from Ivinghoe, who at one time owned Bury Farm in the centre of the village.

It is joined by the Ouzel Brook from Houghton Regis, and by Whistle Brook ( also known at Ivinghoe as Whizzle Brook ) from Pitstone.

The first section to be officially designated as a Long-Distance Footpath ( as National Trails were then known ) was that from Overton Hill to Ivinghoe Beacon, and it was declared open as the Ridgeway in 1973.

Ivinghoe Beacon, near the village, is an ancient beacon, or signal point, which was used in times of crisis to send messages across the country and is now popular with walkers who just want to get exercise and see the view.

When Nettleden became a parish the hamlet of St Margaret's, formerly belonging to Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire, was connected to Nettleden.

Ringshall-Hall Farm is situated in the Edlesborough part, but the hamlet was always appendant to Ivinghoe.

The Ivinghoe part of the hamlet was transferred to Little Gaddesden in 1895, but some houses have since been built along Beacon Road in the area that remained as part of Ivinghoe parish.

By the middle of May 1930 the club had secured the use of Ivinghoe Beacon as a launch site for its gliders, unfortunately the spectacle attracted so much public attention that the club was evicted for " spoiling its peaceful enjoyment by the public "

One of fifteen long-distance National Trails in England and Wales, the Ridgeway travels for northeast from Overton Hill within the Avebury World Heritage Site to Ivinghoe Beacon near Tring, where it meets the Icknield Way Path.

At Knettishall Heath the Peddars Way links with the Icknield Way Path for 110 miles south west to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire.

Ivinghoe Beacon is a popular spot for walkers, sightseers and model aircraft enthusiasts, who use lift generated by the wind blowing up the hill-a technique known as slope soaring.

Ivinghoe village, meanwhile, once served as a set for the children's TV series Chucklevision.

The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.

It is situated close to the villages of Ivinghoe, Aldbury in Buckinghamshire, the Ashridge Estate, and the village of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, and is managed and owned by the National Trust.

The Ridgeway National Trail follows the ancient Ridgeway from Overton Hill, near Avebury, to Streatley, then follows footpaths and parts of the ancient Icknield Way through the Chiltern Hills to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire.

Between Lewknor and Ivinghoe there are two parallel courses known as the Lower Icknield Way and the Upper Icknield Way.

Ivinghoe Beacon is a prominent hill and landmark in the Chiltern Hills, standing 233 m ( 757 ft ) above sea level.

Ivinghoe Beacon lies between the towns of Dunstable, Berkhamsted and Tring.

Contrary to popular claims, Ivinghoe Beacon does not rise to 249m above sea level as some sources claim.

Despite this, there is an indication that Ivinghoe Beacon has a line of sight to a landmark in Blue Bell Hill in Kent.

* Ivinghoe Soaring Association-Controls model slope soaring off Ivinghoe Beacon.

The nearby Ivinghoe Beacon is a more prominent hill, although it only stands 249 m ( 817 ft ) above sea level.

To the east of Ivinghoe Beacon is Dunstable Downs, a steep section of the Chiltern scarp.

The Ridgeway National Trail, an 85-mile route that extends from Avebury to Ivinghoe, passes along Wendover High Street.

Horton is a hamlet in the parish of Ivinghoe, in Buckinghamshire, England.

Although in the parish of Ivinghoe, the hamlet is nearer to Cheddington with its shops and churches, so that is the main village to which most residents of Horton feel most attached.

Ivinghoe is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the border with Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.

The cover blurbs indicate Beacon's high intentions: " He was white, she was beautiful — and bad "/" A starkly naked novel of sin and segregation.

However, once the popularity of the program became evident, many of these distributors reversed their decision and began to display the line of software bearing Mavis Beacon's image.

Furthermore, as a result of Mavis Beacon's continuous use in computer typing software, and her image on millions of software boxes, many consumers have reported confabulations ( false memories ) of Mavis Beacon winning typing contests or appearing on talk shows.

Beacon's in-school requirements have been significantly more stringent than those of comparable New York City public high schools since well before its forced acceptance of the Regents Exam system.

Although a unit of the California state park system, it is managed by the city of Encinitas and is even signposted under its local name of Beacon's Beach.

Because of Mavis Beacon's race, some computer software distributors, mostly but not exclusively in the southern United States, were initially reluctant to display the computer software.

There are still critics who complain that Beacon's acceptance of that system hindered, not helped, its overall college-preparatory initiatives.

Glunt readjusted Beacon's focus to being a faith-based company that adhered to " family friendly " radio.

Leucadia State Beach, also known as Beacon's Beach, is a protected beach of California, United States, in Encinitas.