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 |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Milton Keynes and Aylesbury.
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes is a city of 245,000 people in the South East of England. Milton Keynes is well known in the UK as a planned city built in the 1960s with emphatically modernist architecture.
Aylesbury
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Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, England. It is home to the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery and the Waterside Theatre. There is also one of the largest independent Arts Centre in the UK, the Queens Park Arts Centre which recently received the King's Award for Voluntary Service.
High Wycombe
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High Wycombe is a large and historic town between hills in the county of Buckinghamshire in England. Furniture making played an extensive role in the town's industrial heritage. The market in High Street dates back to the Middle Ages.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Buckingham and Amersham.
Buckingham
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Buckingham is a small historic market town in South East England. It is in the northern half of Buckinghamshire close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire.
Amersham
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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.
Marlow
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Marlow is an attractive town in the English county of Buckinghamshire. The town is on the bank of the River Thames in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, some 35 miles west of London.
Chesham
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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.
Winslow
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Winslow is a market town and civil parish in north Buckinghamshire, England, within the Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority area. It has a population of just over 4,400.
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.
Princes Risborough
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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.
Great Missenden
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Great Missenden is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. Its environs include the separate, nearby settlements of Prestwood, South Heath and Ballinger.
Buckinghamshire
- Type: Region with 800,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in England, UK (use Q21694636 for administrative unitary authority)
- Also known as: “Bucks”, “Ceremonial County Buckinghamshire”, and “County of Buckingham”
- Neighbors: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, and Surrey
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Buckinghamshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Buckinghamshire”
- Arabic: “باكنغهامشير”
- Arabic: “باكينجهامشير”
- Arabic: “باكينغهامشير”
- Aragonese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Armenian: “Բաքինգհեմշիր”
- Armenian: “Բաքինհեմշիր”
- Asturian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Azerbaijani: “Bakingemşir qraflığı”
- Balinese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Basque: “Buckinghamshire”
- Belarusian: “Бакінгемшыр”
- Belarusian: “Бэкінггэмшыр”
- Bengali: “বাকিংহামশায়ার”
- Breton: “Buckinghamshire”
- Bulgarian: “Бъкингамшър”
- Catalan: “Buckinghamshire”
- Cebuano: “Buckinghamshire”
- Chinese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Chinese: “白金汉郡”
- Chinese: “白金漢郡”
- Cornish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Croatian: “Buckinghamshire (grofovija)”
- Croatian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Czech: “Buckinghamshire”
- Danish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Dimli (individual language): “Buckinghamshire”
- Dutch: “Buckinghamshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باكينجهامشير”
- Esperanto: “Buckinghamshire”
- Estonian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Finnish: “Buckinghamshire”
- French: “Buckinghamshire”
- Galician: “Buckinghamshire”
- Georgian: “ბაკინგემშირი”
- German: “Buckinghamshire”
- Greek: “Μπάκιγχαμσαϊρ”
- Greek: “Μπάκιγχαμσιρ”
- Gujarati: “બકિંગહામશાયર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Hebrew: “בקינגהאמשייר”
- Hindi: “बकिंघमशायर”
- Hungarian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Icelandic: “Buckinghamshire”
- Ido: “Buckinghamshire”
- Indonesian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Interlingua: “Buckinghamshire”
- Irish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Italian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Japanese: “バッキンガムシャー”
- Kannada: “ಬಕಿಂಗ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್ಷೈರ್”
- Korean: “버킹엄셔주”
- Kurdish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Ladin: “Buckinghamshire”
- Latin: “Buckinghamiensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Bakingemšīra”
- Latvian: “Bekingemšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Bakingamšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Macedonian: “Бакингемшир”
- Malay: “Buckinghamshire”
- Malayalam: “ബക്കിങ്ങാംഷയർ”
- Manx: “Buckinghamshire”
- Maori: “Buckinghamshire”
- Marathi: “बकिंगहॅमशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Mirandese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Northern Frisian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buckinghamshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buckinghamshire”
- Norwegian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Buckinghamshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Buccingahāmscīr”
- Ossetian: “Бакингемшир”
- Persian: “باکینگهامشایر”
- Persian: “باکینگهامشر”
- Polish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Portuguese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Romanian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Russian: “Бакингемшир”
- Scots: “Buckinghamshire”
- Serbian: “Бакингамшир”
- Serbian: “Бакингемшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Slovak: “Buckinghamshire”
- Slovenian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Slovenian: “Bucks”
- Spanish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Swedish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Tajik: “Бакингемшир”
- Tamil: “புக்கிங்ஹம்ஷிர்”
- Tatar: “Бакингемшир”
- Telugu: “బకింగ్హంషైర్”
- Thai: “บักกิงแฮมเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Buckinghamshire”
- Turkish: “Törensel Buckinghamshire Kontluğu”
- Uighur: “Bukkinxamshir”
- Ukrainian: “Бакінгемшир”
- Urdu: “بکنگھم شائر”
- Urdu: “بکنگھمشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Buckingham”
- Vietnamese: “Buckinghamshire”
- Volapük: “Buckinghamshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Buckinghamshire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Buckingham”
- Western Frisian: “Buckinghamshire”
- Western Panjabi: “بکنگھمشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “白金汉郡”
- Yiddish: “באקינגהאמשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “白金漢郡”
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