Chiltern Hills Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
hills in South East England
About Chiltern Hills
According to theBritish Geological Survey, the Chilterns are part of a large geological formation which spans the area between the English Channel andNorfolk. They started forming around 145 million years ago. Humans started living in the hills between 11,700 to 4,000 BC (Mesolithic),the hills' authority has said, when nomadic hunter-gatherers started to catch and eat red deer and fish. There is also evidence of Neolithic (4,000-2,000 BC) life in the Chilterns. with a barrow or burial mound at Whiteleaf Hill. Paths like the Icknield Way were trodden as early as 650 BC, during the iron age. Over more recent centuries, patchwork fields, woodland and farmland developed, which became an important source of food under the Tudors (1485-1603 AD). When the industrial revolution rolled around, the
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