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St Mary and All Saints’ Church, Beaconsfield and the tomb of the poet and politician Edmund Waller at left. In 1624, Waller's family acquired Wilton Manor and Hall Barn in the town. [5] "The Wallers, who came from Speldhurst, Kent," says the Victoria County history of Buckinghamshire, "were settled at Beaconsfield as early as the 14th century."
Bekonscot Model Village and Railway was created as a private miniature park in the 1920s by Roland Callingham and his gardener W. A. Berry. [1]: 661 [2] [3] Callingham's wife had told him to take his model railway hobby outside their house, so he purchased four acres of land in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and built an ideal English village with a church, railway and high street, illuminated ...
Hall Barn is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England, and its landscaped park and gardens are also Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [10] [11] The boathouse, the obelisk, and the "Temple of Venus" pavilion on the estate all date to the 18th century and are also listed as Grade II*.
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.
In September 2020, the historian, Helen Fry, published a book titled "MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two" describing what went on at Wilton Park during the Second World War and its subsequent use up to and including the 21st century. [12] The aftermath of the fire in March 2022
The town of Beaconsfield formed a local government district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England from 1850 to 1974. It was administered as a local board district from 1850 to 1894, and as an urban district from 1894 to 1974.
Memorial Green, the Old Town, Beaconsfield The constituency was created in 1974, mostly from the former seat of South Buckinghamshire, since which date the area has formed the southernmost part of Buckinghamshire — before 1974 the notable settlements of Slough and Eton, as well as less well-known Langley, Wraysbury, Sunnymeads and Datchet were in the county.
A park known as the Beaconsfield Town Hall gardens was established in front of the town hall in 2003. The gardens included a seating area with a gazebo and plaques to celebrate local themes, including a street fair, a lute player, a coach and horses, a railway and a model village . [ 12 ]