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Chequers (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ər z / CHEK-ərz) is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.A 16th-century manor house in origin, it is near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 40 miles (64 km) north-west of central London.
The view overlooks Chequers, the country home of the Prime Minister. The monument was erected in 1904, by public subscription, in memory of 148 men from Buckinghamshire who died during the Second Boer War. Coombe Hill Monument was almost totally destroyed by lightning in 1938 and was rebuilt in the same year.
Lee's Chequers estate 1909-1921. Lee and his wife took on a long lease of Chequers, a country house and 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) estate in Buckinghamshire, in 1909. The Lees bought the property in 1912 after the owner died, and began restoration.
Chequers was gifted to the British state in 1921 and has been the country escape for each prime minister ever since, reports Ellie Muir
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As Chequers places host to a crucial Brexit cabinet meeting, a look back at how British prime ministers repeatedly fell in love with their country home. A Chequers history: the country palace of ...
Butlers Cross, Russell Arms. Butlers Cross is a hamlet within the parish of Ellesborough (where the 2011 Census population was included), 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.
Ellesborough is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.The village is at the foot of the Chiltern Hills just to the south of the Vale of Aylesbury, two miles (three kilometres) from Wendover and five miles (eight kilometres) from Aylesbury.