Chequers
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…Photo: StephenSimpson, Public domain.
- Type: Manor estate
- Description: country house in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Chequers Court”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beacon Hill and Coombe Hill.
Coombe Hill
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Waysider83, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 1 mile northwest of Chequers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Butlers Cross and Great Kimble.
Butlers Cross
Hamlet
Photo: Rpriv2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Butlers Cross is a hamlet within the parish of Ellesborough, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the parish, at the crossroads between the road from Ellesborough to Little Kimble, and the road from Terrick to the Chequers country house.
Great Kimble
Village
Photo: Stephen Daglish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh is a civil parish in central Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 5 miles to the south of Aylesbury. The civil parish altogether holds the ancient ecclesiastical villages of Great Kimble, Little Kimble, Kimblewick and Marsh, and an area within Great Kimble called Smokey Row.
Cadsden
Village
Cadsden is a hamlet in South Buckinghamshire, England, two miles north east of Princes Risborough. At the time of the 2011 Census, the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Lacey Green.
Chequers
- Categories: English country house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Ellesborough, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.74329° or 51° 44′ 36″ northLongitude
-0.78216° or 0° 46′ 56″ westOpen location code
9C3XP6V9+84OpenStreetMap ID
way 130752518OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=manorWikidata ID
Q1070192
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Thai—“Chequers” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chequers”
- Catalan: “Chequers”
- Chinese: “契克斯”
- Czech: “Chequers”
- Dutch: “Chequers”
- Estonian: “Chequers”
- Finnish: “Chequers”
- French: “Chequers”
- French: “manoir de Chequers”
- German: “Chequers Court”
- German: “Chequers”
- Hebrew: “צ’קרס”
- Italian: “Chequers Court”
- Italian: “Chequers”
- Japanese: “チェッカーズ (カントリー・ハウス)”
- Japanese: “チェッカーズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chequers”
- Norwegian: “Chequers”
- Polish: “Chequers”
- Portuguese: “Chequers”
- Russian: “Чекерс”
- Scots: “Chequers”
- Spanish: “Chequers Court”
- Spanish: “Chequers”
- Swedish: “Chequers Estate”
- Swedish: “Chequers”
- Thai: “เช็กเกอส์”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Whorley Wood and Maple Wood.
Nearby Places
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