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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*.
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
This list of museums in Buckinghamshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. It is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
The area merged with parts of Eton Rural District to form Beaconsfield District, which in April 1980 was renamed South Bucks District. A successor parish was established to cover the former area of Beaconsfield Urban District, with its council taking the name Beaconsfield Town Council. The 1936 Council Hall in Penn Road became the headquarters ...
The town of Beaconsfield had been governed by a local board of health from 1850, which became Beaconsfield Urban District Council in 1894. [1] A group of local business leaders formed a private company to raise finance for the construction of a town hall on the west side of Station Road between the junctions with Gregories Road and Burkes Road. [2]