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Nature Attractions In Buckinghamshire

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Buckinghamshire , abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east. Buckinghamshire is one of the home counties and towns such as High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham and the Chalfonts in the east and southeast of the county are parts of the London commuter belt, forming some of the most densely populated parts of the county. Development in this region is restricted by the Metropolitan Green Belt. Other large settlements include the county town of Aylesbury, Marlow in...
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Nature Attractions In Buckinghamshire

  • 1. Wendover Woods Wendover
    Wendover is a market town and civil parish at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated at the point where the main road across the Chilterns between London and Aylesbury intersects with the once important road along the foot of the Chilterns. The town is some 35 miles north west of London and 5 miles south east of Aylesbury, and is very popular with commuters working in London.The parish has an area of 5,832 acres and had, at the time of the 2011 census, a population of 7,399. Outside the town of Wendover, the parish is mainly arable and also contains many hamlets that nestle in amongst the woodlands on the surrounding hills. Although Wendover has a weekly market, and has had a market charter since medieval times, many of its inhabitants identify it as a v...
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  • 2. Hell Fire Caves West Wycombe
    The Hellfire Caves are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend a quarter of a mile underground. They are situated above the village of West Wycombe, at the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, Southeast England. They were excavated between 1748 and 1752 for Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer , founder of the Dilettanti Society and co-founder of the Hellfire Club, whose meetings were held in the caves. The caves have been operating as a tourist attraction since 1951.
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  • 3. Weston Turville Reservoir Weston Turville
    Weston Turville is a historic village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 3 miles from the market town of Wendover and 3.5 miles from Aylesbury. The village name 'Weston' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'western estate' or western homestead, as 'tun' means an enclosed farm in Angle. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the village is recorded as Westone. The suffix 'Turville' was added later, referring to the lords of the manor in the 13th century, and to differentiate the village from other places called Weston. Between 1236 and 1539, Weston Turville grew to have five areas, or ends – Church End, Brook End, South End, West End and World's End. These five ends still exist, as documented by Hamish Eaton's bo...
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  • 5. Higginson Park Marlow
    General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, was a British Army officer and veteran of the Crimean War who served more than 30 years in the Grenadier Guards.
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  • 7. Emberton Country Park Milton Keynes
    Emberton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire in England. The village is near the border with Northamptonshire, just to the south of Olney and four miles north of Newport Pagnell. The parish of Emberton was formed from three villages that were annexed together for ecclesiastical purposes in 1650: Petsoe, Ekeney and Emberton. Today nothing remains of Ekeney and Petsoe only exists as a hamlet called Petsoe End. The village name is an Old English word and means Eanbeorht's Farm. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was called Ambretone; in manorial records of 1227 it was Emberdestone. The manor was previously owned by the Pagnell family of Newport Pagnell. The parish church is dedicated to All Saints. At the heart of the villa...
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  • 8. Coombe Hill Aylesbury
    Coombe Hill is a hill in The Chilterns, located next to the hamlet of Dunsmore, Buckinghamshire, England, near the small town of Wendover, and overlooking Aylesbury Vale. It is not to be confused with another Coombe Hill on the flank of Haddington Hill, some two miles to the north-east. It is part of the Bacombe and Coombe Hills Site of Special Scientific Interest. The majority of the hill once formed part of the Chequers Estate but was presented to the National Trust by the United Kingdom government when they were given the Estate in the 1920s. The summit of the hill is 852 feet / 259.7 m above sea level.
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  • 9. West Wycombe Park West Wycombe
    West Wycombe is a small village situated along the A40 road, three miles west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. The historic village is largely a National Trust property and receives a large annual influx of tourists – being the site of West Wycombe Park, West Wycombe Caves and the Mausoleum on top of West Wycombe Hill. The Mausoleum and Golden Ball above West Wycombe village are impressive local landmarks, visually dominating the village and local landscape for miles surrounding. West Wycombe Park, Caves, Mausoleum and St Lawrence's Church were all constructed in the mid-18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the Dilettanti Society and co-founder of the notorious Hellfire Club.
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  • 10. Campbell Park Milton Keynes
    Campbell Park is a district in east-central and south-central Milton Keynes, England, the central park for Milton Keynes, and a ward of Central Milton Keynes Parish Council.Despite the loss of its eponymous district to another parish, the name Campbell Park continues to be used for a civil parish that includes other districts. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 13,364.
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  • 11. Caldecotte Lake Milton Keynes
    Walton was a hamlet that is now a district and civil parish in Milton Keynes, ceremonial Buckinghamshire, England. For local government purposes, it is part of the Danesborough and Walton electoral ward. The historic hamlet is located about four miles south of Central Milton Keynes and just east of Simpson, mostly along Walton Road in the modern Walnut Tree district. The modern H9 Groveway grid road severs a few of its houses into Walton Hall and the V10 Brickhill Street separates the Manor Farm off into the Walton grid square. The Manor Farm has been redeveloped, first into a research centre for Hoechst and subsequently as the UK headquarters of MSD Animal Health.The village name is a common one in England, and is an Old English language word, meaning either 'village of the Britons' or 'w...
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  • 14. Linford Manor Park Milton Keynes
    Great Linford is a historic village, district and civil parish in the northern part of Milton Keynes, England, between Wolverton and Newport Pagnell.
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