Sunny Easter Monday morning captures best of this archetypeally picturesque English town
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6000 x 4000 px | 50.8 x 33.9 cm | 20 x 13.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
21 April 2014Location:
Beaconsfield Old town, Buckinghamshire , England UKMore information:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beaconsfield i/ˈbɛkənzfiːld/ is a market town It lies 23.6 miles (38 km) northwest of Charing Cross in Central London The town is adjacent to the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty The first written reference to Beaconsfield dates from 1185 where it is spelt Bekenesfeld. Although this is mistakenly thought to mean "field by the beacon, " actually it is derived from "clearing in the beeches" (beech trees). The parish church at the crossroads of Old Beaconsfield is dedicated to St Mary, it was rebuilt of flint and bath stone by the Victorians in 1869. TheUnited Reformed Church in Beaconsfield can trace its roots of non-conformist worship in the town back to 1704. In the Victorian era the town was the home constituency of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and then again from 1874 until 1880 (in fact his home, Hughenden Manor is in the nearby town of High Wycombe). In 1876 he was made the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria with whom he was very popular. It was due to this, that Beaconsfield became a popular road name in industrial cities across the country in the late Victorian era. The New Town was built 1 mile further to the north, when the railway arrived, at the turn of the 20th century. The railway station is on the Chiltern Main Line out of Marylebone towards High Wycombe it then branches to Aylesbury, andBirmingham Snow Hill. Old Beaconsfield which grew up on the Oxford Road in part to serve the coach traffic, is mirrored by New Beaconsfield which Beaconsfield was named 'Britain's richest town' by The Telegraph in 2008. The ranking was based on average house prices, calculated to be £684, 474 in Beaconsfield.