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Chiltern Hills
[ chil-tern ]
noun
- a range of chalk hills in Oxford and Buckinghamshire, S England. Highest peak, Coombe Hill, 852 feet (260 meters).
Chiltern Hills
/ ˈʃɪə /
plural noun
- a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
Example Sentences
Janet, a 51-year-old research nurse in Oxford, was home alone in the Chiltern Hills, near Radnage in Buckinghamshire, when someone broke in, handcuffed her and hit her on the head repeatedly with a heavy object.
The hawk had been wreaking havoc in the village, which is on the edge of the Chiltern hills, even holding up the postal service.
Sarah Graham runs Hilltops Ukrainian Support Community, which has helped almost 600 people settle into the area around the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, three-quarters of whom are now in their own homes.
Dr Ian Evans of Natural England went out to Spain in the 1990s to collect wild red kites for release in the Chiltern Hills.
From there he travelled through Slough before pivoting north through the Chiltern Hills.
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