Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a county in the South East of England to the north west of London. It is known as Leafy Bucks to some, due to the idyllic rolling hills and vast woodlands but also contains several large towns, including High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, and Aylesbury, which have great tourist attractions as well as shopping opportunities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chequers and Halton House.
Chequers
Manor estate
Photo: StephenSimpson, Public domain.
Chequers or Chequers Court is the country house of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house, it lies near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between the towns of Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot…
Halton House
Manor estate
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Halton House is a country house in the Chiltern Hills above the village of Halton in Buckinghamshire, England. It was built for Alfred Freiherr de Rothschild between 1880 and 1883.
Wendover railway station
Railway station
Photo: Trainspotter12, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wendover railway station serves the town of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, England, and villages including Ellesborough and Wendover Dean. The station is on the London Marylebone – Aylesbury line and is served by Chiltern Railways trains.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wendover and Great Missenden.
Wendover
Wendover is a 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.
Great Missenden
Photo: Peter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Missenden is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. Its environs include the separate, nearby settlements of Prestwood, South Heath and Ballinger.
Princes Risborough
Photo: Gatvol00, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Princes Risborough, often shortened to Risborough or PR, is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England; it is located about 9 miles south of Aylesbury and 8 miles northwest of High Wycombe.
Buckinghamshire
- Type: County with 853,000 residents
- Also known as: “Buckingham”, “Bucks”, and “County of Buckinghamshire”
- Category: locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.75° or 51° 45′ northLongitude
-0.75° or 0° 45′ westPopulation
853,000Elevation
659 feet (201 metres)Abbreviation
“BKM”Open location code
9C3XQ722+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 302323876OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
2654408
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Buckinghamshire” goes by many names.
- French: “Buckinghamshire”
- German: “Buckinghamshire”
- Portuguese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Spanish: “Buckinghamshire”
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