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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.
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.
Coombe Hill Monument is one of the first and largest examples of a war memorial erected to honour the names of individual men who fell whilst fighting for their country. The monument is an iconic Buckinghamshire landmark and a Grade II listed monument. At 850 feet (260 m) above sea level, it sits on one of the highest and most striking spurs of ...
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 ...
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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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. It lies between Wendover and the village of Little Kimble.