Aylesbury on a bike

Yesterday, I was at a loose end as to what to do with myself. So I thought, what about a nice cycle ride. I haven't gone cycling for a day before, so didn't know how far I could cycle without knackering myself( a word I once used in a church metting and recieved great disapproval from the older members of the committee). So I chose to cycle down the route of the Metropolitan Line, via Stoke Mandeville, Wendover, Great Missenden and eventually Beaconsfield. Now in Beaconsfield live a great family who I have known for many years and are very kind to me, so when I arrived, I went to their house to see if they were in, luckily Phil was, and despite my sweat drenched state we had a cup of tea, biscuit and a chat about lots of things of life. He is a very busy man, so I left him, realising that he was in the middle of his hectic day. Now, as you may have guessed, Beaconsfield has an Aylesbury. So I thought, why not visit it? A problem as I had no maps to speak of, except a 1:50000 to check my cycle route. I went into a news agents to look for an A-Z of Beaconsfield, however they did not have one. I then decided to utilise the services of an Estate agent, with their knowledge of property and maps. I locked up my bike, went into the nearest estate agents and explained that I was not from the area and was looking round it, (which I was) I was asked if I was buying or renting? (Not really wanting to lie, but seeing that the nice estate agent was wanting to sell me something, or give me something which I then might give them money for) I said that I was looking for houses to rent in the area (which I wasn't) and she gave me a list of properties available to rent and more importantly, a map, most importantly, showing the location of Aylesbury End. So this little deception complete, I cycled off to Aylesbury End.
Aylesbury End, far from being a culdesac or close, is actually, like the East End or South Side, it describes which end of Beaconsfield you are in and the road, is a description of which end of the high street you are, there is also a London End. Ah! Ha! you might say, therefore it is a road going to Aylesbury, and therefore is not applicable to your search. (You probably won't however) I tell you it is not a road that goes to Aylesbury, as like the East End, which is in the middle, Aylesbury End is on the south side of Beaconsfield and therefore a viable target. It used to be the Aylesbury End of the old Beaconsfield, so historically used to be the road to Aylesbury, as the East end used to be the East end of London, however Beaconsfield has grown northwards around the station and therefore is not directly linked to Aylesbury.
No photo unfortunately, as I did not reach a sign post on this road. As an amazing coincidence, Fiona then called to me from her car as her and Helen were returning from Kew Botanical Gardens. She was amazed to see me in Beaconsfield as I was to be beckoned from the road. Being very kind, they invited me off to their house again, the second time in a day and generously offered me lunch and caught up on lots of bits of family news and discussed cycling expeditions past and future.
I set off for home via Penn to avoid the hills of the Amersham bypass and go via a more country side route. Although did end up on the Wendover bypass which has cars rocketing down it at around 100 Mph which was a bit hairy. Below see a photo of a little chick I found in the road and escorted to the side to avoid it being run over.

This was the closest Aylesbury so far and the cheapest one to visit. I brings my average Km per Aylesbury to 107. Perhaps in the future it might be a good way of visiting more Aylesburys.