Ghostly figures

We met up with my daughter and boyfriend in Wendover in the thick fog today. We had a very atmospheric walk through one of our newest nature reserves, Bacombe Hill, and followed the Ridgeway path to Coombe Hill, before retiring to a cosy pub for lunch. This was about the clearest view of the Boar War monument that graces the summit of Coombe Hill. Many books refer to this 'Coombe Hill' as the highest point in the Chilterns...but they are wrong. It is certainly the highest viewpoint and the highest man-made point at 852 feet above sea level, but the actual summit of the Chilterns is at a less spectacular place 876 feet above sea level, marked by a huge boulder, at Haddington Hill (sometimes also called Coombe Hill) just one field away from the top of my nature reserve.