Amersham
Amersham is in Buckinghamshire, England. Home to 17,000 inhabitants, it is the heart of "Metro-land", where London suburbs meet the Chiltern Hills, a place where some of the best walks in the British countryside are located.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 21,700 residents
- Description: market town in Buckinghamshire, England
- Also known as: “Amersham, Buckinghamshire” and “Amersham, England”
- Historically known as: “Agmonsdesham”
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amersham station and Amersham Museum.
Amersham station
Metro station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Amersham is a London Underground and National Rail station in the market town of Amersham in Buckinghamshire, England. Amersham station is a terminus of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.
Amersham Museum
Museum
Photo: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amersham Museum at 49 and 51 High Street is a small local museum based in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the High Street in Old Amersham.
Amersham Market Hall
Town hall
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Amersham Market Hall, formerly known as Amersham Town Hall, is a municipal building in the High Street in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. The structure is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chesham and Chesham Bois.
Chesham
Photo: Iridescent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chesham is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, 11 miles south-east of the county town of Aylesbury, about 26 miles north-west of central London, and part of the London commuter belt.
Chesham Bois
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chesham Bois is a village in the Chiltern Hills, in Buckinghamshire, England, adjacent to both Amersham and Chesham.
Little Chalfont
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Chalfont is a village and civil parish in south-east Buckinghamshire, England. It is one of a group of villages known collectively as "The Chalfonts", which also comprises Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St Peter.
Amersham
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.6767° or 51° 40′ 36″ northLongitude
-0.6077° or 0° 36′ 28″ westPopulation
21,700Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB AMEOpen location code
9C3XM9GR+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 368772368OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Amersham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمرشام”
- Asturian: “Amersham”
- Basque: “Amersham”
- Belarusian: “Амершам”
- Bengali: “এমারশ্যাম”
- Bulgarian: “Амършам”
- Catalan: “Amersham”
- Cebuano: “Amersham (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Amersham”
- Chinese: “Amersham”
- Chinese: “阿默舍姆”
- Czech: “Amersham”
- Dutch: “Amersham”
- Esperanto: “Amersham”
- French: “Amersham”
- German: “Amersham”
- Gujarati: “એમર્શમ”
- Hebrew: “אמרשם”
- Hungarian: “Amersham”
- Irish: “Amersham”
- Italian: “Amersham”
- Japanese: “アマーシャム”
- Japanese: “アマースハム”
- Japanese: “アマシャム”
- Kannada: “ಅಮರ್ಸ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
- Korean: “아머샴”
- Korean: “아머셤”
- Ladin: “Amersham”
- Latin: “Amershamia”
- Lithuanian: “Ameršamas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amersham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amersham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amersham”
- Norwegian: “Amersham”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Agmodesham/gw”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Agmodesham”
- Persian: “امرشام”
- Polish: “Amersham”
- Portuguese: “Amersham”
- Romanian: “Amersham”
- Russian: “Амершам”
- Russian: “Амершем”
- Slovak: “Amersham”
- Slovenian: “Amersham”
- South Azerbaijani: “امرشام”
- Spanish: “Amersham”
- Swedish: “Amersham”
- Tamil: “ஆமெர்ஷம்”
- Telugu: “అమెర్శాం”
- Turkish: “Amersham”
- Ukrainian: “Амершем”
- Urdu: “امیرشام”
- Volapük: “Amersham”
- Welsh: “Amersham”
- “Amersham”
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