as is common with other similar villages in the chiltern hills, properties have become increasingly in demand due to its location and the improvement in rail connections and road connections to london. it has a recently refurbished village shop, "the country store" (formerly the "kedai"), and a local school, bledlow ridge school. bledlow ridge has a number of clubs, such as 'bridge', a youth club and a cricket club. as well as the corner shop, there is also an equestrian centre, park, tennis courts and a cricket pitch the 'bledlow ridge cricket club' owns. yoesden, south of chinnor road, is a nature reserve the berkshire, buckinghamshire and oxfordshire wildlife trust manages.