Bekonscot
Bekonscot Model Village and Railway is a model village built in the 1920s in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK at a scale of one inch to one foot. It portrays aspects of England mostly dating from the 1930s and contains several fictitious villages featuring replicas of notable local buildings.Photo: MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Theme park
- Description: oldest original model village in the world, located in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bekonscot Model Village”
- Address: Warwick Road, Beaconsfield, HP9 2PL
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beaconsfield Town Hall and Church of St Michael and All Angels.
Beaconsfield Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Reading Tom, CC BY 2.0.
Beaconsfield Town Hall is a municipal building in Penn Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. The structure accommodates the offices and meeting place of Beaconsfield Town Council. Beaconsfield Town Hall is situated 720 feet south of Bekonscot.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
Church
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
Church of St Michael and All Angels is situated 500 feet east of Bekonscot.
Beaconsfield railway station
Railway station
Photo: Feebtlas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beaconsfield railway station is a railway station in the market town of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Chiltern Main Line between Seer Green and Jordans and High Wycombe stations. It is served by Chiltern Railways. Beaconsfield railway station is situated 920 feet south of Bekonscot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beaconsfield and Knotty Green.
Beaconsfield
Town
Photo: Bikeboy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, 24 miles northwest of Central London and 16 miles southeast of Aylesbury. Three other towns are within 5 miles : Gerrards Cross, Amersham and High Wycombe.
Knotty Green
Village
Knotty Green was once a rural hamlet in the Buckinghamshire Chiltern Hills. It is characterised by large houses set in their own extensive grounds and though it remains within the civil parish of Penn today it has become contiguous with the market town of Beaconsfield.
Forty Green
Village
Forty Green is a hamlet in the parish of Penn in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills near Beaconsfield and Knotty Green.
Bekonscot
- Categories: miniature park, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Beaconsfield, South Bucks District, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.61378° or 51° 36′ 50″ northLongitude
-0.64482° or 0° 38′ 41″ westOpen location code
9C3XJ974+G3OpenStreetMap ID
way 40110523OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=theme_parkWikidata ID
Q2894118
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Satellite Map
Discover Bekonscot from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Bekonscot” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bekonscot”
- Esperanto: “Bekonscot”
- French: “Bekonscot”
- Japanese: “ベコンスコット”
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