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I would like to contest the fact that this wiki says that halton woods is the highest point in this area having lived there for 20 years im very sure the actual highest point is Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire. i also know that Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshireis one of the highest points in southen england until you get to the south downs. please change this.
I have changed the bit about the Chilterns extending only to Dunstable, this is highly inaccurate, as yoy would miss out Blows Down (between Luton and Dunstable - to the South), Warden and Galley Hill, Sharpenhoe Clappers, Sundon Hills, Barton Hills (including the Ravenburgh Castle site) Telegraph Hill, Deacon Hill,and Offley Hill (the latter ccan be seen from Dunstable Downs and itself can provide a distance view of Cambridge). Most of these areas have brown "The Chilterns" tourist signs.
Also I think it should be pointed out that the hills run South West to North East and that rivers valleys extend to the south through much of the hills (Rivers; Mimram, Lee/Lea, Ver, Gade, Bulborne and so on.--Pandaplodder 12:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I added the Hertfordshire project banner (among others) and gave a rating of "start" (although others might have given "stub", given the local importance). The article, IMO, could be improved by a map, an appropriate summary box, historical overview and geology. The various project pages may have useful advice and guidelines. Folks at 137 07:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know why but the image in the infobox seems huge now, I think its somthing to do with the template but cannot see what...GameKeeper (talk) 21:57, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
For the purpose of a utility description for the starting point of the Chiltern Hills by the Chilterns AONB the town of Goring-on-Thamesin Oxfordshire is taken as the most westerly town and starting point for the region on some occasions along with its smaller neighbour Mapledurham. User talk:82.13.136.96 has repeated replaced today this definition with one less precise which infers the starting point is in Berkshire somewhere to the north of ReadinginBerkshire. This description deviates from the standard description and does not provide helpful information to the reader and has been done without any explanation or referral to this Talkpage. As the reversions for the consensus by this user has already violated WP:3RR and I will request they desist from further reversion and to comment here as to there rationale for the change.Tmol42 (talk) 17:42, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
According to the article at present - "By established custom, Members of the British Parliament may apply for the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds as a device to resign their seats, despite an ordinance to the contrary." There's nothing about this "ordinance" in Chiltern HundredsorResignation from the House of Commons - indeed, the latter article quotes from the appropriate Act of Parliament that explicitly lists the Chiltern Hundreds as an office that can be used for resignation. If no details of this "ordinance" are forthcoming - and, if they are, they should go into the above-named articles, as well - I intend to delete the clause. Tevildo (talk) 13:45, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is it likely the name of the hills derives from the name of the tribe who lived there? Is is not more likely that the name of the tribe derives from their location? This could go either way, but there are other '-saete' names - such as Magonsaete - that derive their names from pre-existing regions (in this case Magnis_(Kenchester).
Is there any reliable evidence one way or the other?
Markaeologist (talk) 08:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nice - I hadn't picked up on Eckwall's suggestion, but it does conform with the name being 'people of the XX-region' in the same way as Magonsaete, and the names of Dorset and Somerset (Dor(novaria)-people and Summer(land)-people), and possibly the Pecsaete, which either means 'peak-people' or possibly in the form 'Pencsaete' as 'Penk-people' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennocrucium). In all these cases the -saete name is derived from a location and it's suggested that in several of them (Magnis, Dornovaria, possibly Pennocrucium) the location is given a pre-English name. Nothing will be likely to ever shake the probability that 'Somerset' derives from the fact that it's better for agriculture in Summer and therefore is a distinctly 'German' locative name; but the etymology of 'peak' is pretty obscure, the earliest citation that makes any sense that I can find being 'pecian' for stigmata; if there's no real evidence that 'peak' was used in Old English, then the likelihood probably is that the derivation of 'peak-people' is false, and 'Penk-people' becomes more likely. In either case, given the other evidence, the 'Cilternsaete' are most likely also named after the region they inhabit rather than the other way round.
Markaeologist (talk) 13:09, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Add the Northamptonshire Heights?--2.100.102.173 (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)||[reply]
Para 4 of the economic use section has a typo: ‘……..in character,for examCleanerple….’. Not sure what correction should be; looks as though a word is missing: Cleaner xxx?
also, when visiting Ibstone today (May 23, 2023) for the first time, I noticed what looked like a stand alone sarsen stone near the village cricket ground. Googling Ibstone standing stone elicited no reference to it. Surely worth a mention as a feature of interest. Nasikboy (talk) 16:31, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]