Chesham
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,600 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Chesham, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chesham tube station and Chesham Mosque.
Chesham tube station
Metro station
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Chesham tube station is a London Underground station in the market town of Chesham in Buckinghamshire, England. It was opened on 8 July 1889 by the Metropolitan Railway.
Chesham Mosque
Mosque
Chesham Mosque is a mosque in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England. It was constructed between 2004 and 2005, to replace the former mosque, which was located in two converted houses on Bellingdon Road.
St Mary’s Church, Chesham
Church
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St. Mary's Church is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and is part of the Diocese of Oxford. Built on the site of a Bronze Age stone circle of puddingstones, parts of the church building date to the 12th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amersham and Chesham Bois.
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.
Chesham Bois
Village
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Chesham Bois is a village in the Chiltern Hills, in Buckinghamshire, England, adjacent to both Amersham and Chesham.
Botley
Village
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Botley is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chesham, in Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means Botta's Clearing. Botley includes the Hen and Chickens public house and Goose Acre pond.
Chesham
- 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
51.7063° or 51° 42′ 23″ northLongitude
-0.6123° or 0° 36′ 44″ westPopulation
20,600Elevation
482 feet (147 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CSHOpen location code
9C3XP94Q+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 14953881OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Chesham” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Շեշեմ”
- Asturian: “Chesham”
- Basque: “Chesham”
- Bengali: “চেজহ্যাম”
- Bulgarian: “Чесъм”
- Catalan: “Chesham”
- Cebuano: “Chesham”
- Chinese: “Chesham”
- Chinese: “切斯汉姆”
- Chinese: “切斯漢姆”
- Chinese: “切舍姆”
- Czech: “Chesham”
- Dutch: “Chesham”
- Esperanto: “Chesham”
- French: “Chesham”
- German: “Chesham”
- Gujarati: “ચેશમ”
- Hebrew: “צ’שם”
- Hungarian: “Chesham”
- Irish: “Chesham”
- Italian: “Chesham”
- Japanese: “チェシャム”
- Kannada: “ಚೆಶಾಮ್”
- Korean: “체스햄”
- Ladin: “Chesham”
- Lithuanian: “Češamas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chesham (Buckinghamshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chesham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chesham”
- Persian: “چشام، باکینگهامشر”
- Persian: “چشهام”
- Polish: “Chesham”
- Portuguese: “Chesham”
- Romanian: “Chesham”
- Russian: “Чешем”
- South Azerbaijani: “چشام، باکینقهامشر”
- Spanish: “Chesham”
- Swedish: “Chesham”
- Tamil: “சேஷம்”
- Telugu: “చెస్ హమ్”
- Urdu: “چشم”
- Volapük: “Chesham”
- Welsh: “Chesham”
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