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To see it all, stay a few days in a real piece of English history - a cottage with inglenook fireplace, a barn on a farm, a 16th century coaching inn, the oldest house in the village or in a filming location itself! Old Amersham

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OLD AMERSHAM is a Appearing in the beautifully maintained Domesday Book of 1086, pre-Victorian market town CHALFONT ST PETER Photo Barbarauilley with stunning architecture is a bustling village of and a vibrant shopping timber-clad independent and dining culture. Stay shops, surrounded by in The KING’S ARMS, a green and pleasant traditional black and white COMMONS. In June 15th century coaching the village is decked inn and a Midsomer with flags on FEAST Murders’ filming location. Also a location for Miss DAY (Feast of St. Peter since 1229), with costumed Marple, and Four Weddings and a Funeral (external CHALFONT ST. GILES is a pretty village which characters, classic cars, dancing and music, culminating shots). Internal shots were at The Crown nearby, home has grown up around a village green and duck in the EVENING CONCERT on Gold Hill Common. to Atul Kochhar’s, AA rosette, Hawkyns Restaurant. pond, fed by the Misbourne River. Immerse yourself in the fun of community spirit. Exceptional food also at The Artichoke, Michelin star restaurant, located in a Grade 2 listed property in Famous poet, John Milton moved here from In the 1600s Judge Jeffreys (the ‘hanging udge’) Market Square. London’s Plague in 1665, and sold the rights presided over his court at The Greyhound pub. Sit to ‘Paradise Lost’ for 5. MILTN’S CTTAGE beside the Misbourne stream, supping a pint, much as AMERSHAM MUSEUM sits within a restored medieval Trust received 0 from ueen Victoria for its Sir Winston Churchill did during his lifetime. hall house and herb garden - explore Tudor life in 150, purchase in 17 (check opening times). A 1.5hr and who owned the town in 1772. Fully accessible and circular walk takes you from Milton’s Cottage Pick up a leaflet from the offering guided walks of the town (check opening times). via OAKLAND PARK GOLF COURSE, to the library and spend 2-3 UAKER MEETING HUSE in Jordans, and hours being entertained The MEMORIAL GARDENS back via Dibden Hill. Take a short walk to COOK by the stories shown are a place like no other. MONUMENT on the Vache Estate. Built by through the plaques Discover the Peace Garden Sir Hugh Palliser, patron of Captain Cook who on the CELFUNDE and why Amersham has won discovered and charted New Zealand and the INHERITANCE self-guided Britain in Bloom’s GLD Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Heritage Walk. It will take AWARD, five years running. you round historic streets, Enoy TRADITINAL CUNTR EVENTS in the past independent shops From Amersham-on-the Hill is a stunning 20min village – including the Literary Festival, May Day and cafés, along riverside walks, and onto the ancient woodland and field walk or short taxi ride. dancing, the country show, fireworks in November common land. A great place to stay, with coaching inns, and Remembrance Sunday. historic houses and other unique accommodation.

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Chalfont St. Giles Chalfont St. Peter Midsomer Murders Great Missenden locations on the Misbourne Little Missenden OLD Amersham

The River Misbourne wends its way through quintessentially English, Buckinghamshire countryside like an episode of Midsomer Murders; flowing below ground in some places, it passes through rural landscapes and historic market towns and villages packed with pretty cottages, stone churches, traditional pubs and fictional murder!

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and Roald Dahl. An old GREAT y today’s village shop and cafe are housed in the original market town on the London MISSENDEN shop from 1922. The village gained its name from Old to Buckingham coaching Jordans Quaker Farm, and the burial ground in front route, it has a distinctive A416 of the Friends Meeting House (1688) bears the simple architecture of merchant Roald Dahl Museum Great Chesham headstone of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, houses, historic shop fronts and Missenden USA. traditional pubs. We start at AMERSHAM LITTLE OLD TOWN STOP 5 the Roald Dahl Nestled on the southern Museum and Story MISSENDEN Little slopes of the Chiltern Centre. Looking from the Chalfont Hills, CHALFONT ST. street, the left-hand side PETER has distinctive of the ‘flushbunkingly A404 and varied architecture, gloriumptious’ café High Wycombe with individual quirky © Chiltern Open Air Museum © Chiltern Open appeared as Shires Bank buildings of all ages. in ‘Painted in Blood’. From Chenies The Chiltern Open Air Museum, in the north of the parish, here, turn into Church A355 Manor is not to be missed - a wonder of 37 rescued buildings Street, and cross over Beaconsfield from the Chilterns, including a toll house, working the Misbourne, where Victorian farm and WWII Nissen Hut. Brought to life with the cottages on your left costumed characters and cooking pots over fire. appeared in ‘Not in my Backyard’. In this episode, CHALFONT Chiltern The Tin Chapel became planning, politics and To ST. GILES Open Air the Midsomer Temperance Beaconsfield Milton’s conservation collide, resulting in a swathe of deaths. It Cottage Museum League’s Chapel in ‘Night bears all the hallmarks of the series: illicit affairs, spying, Museum of the Stag’ when Midsomer burglary, vandalism, blackmail, greed, and some very CHALFONT Abbas men, bearing stag creative murders! Walk further along Church Street to The architecture in ST. PETER horns, go in search of the St. Peter and St. Paul Churchyard which appeared in Old Amersham is pure Jordans ladies. The Museum also FOLD ‘Masterclass’; and is where Roald Dahl is buried. Midsomer: flint and featured in Call the Midwife, FOLD brick cottages, black Grantchester and Downton beams on white render, Seer Abbey, when Lady Edith Green STOP 2 chimney pots on every helps out on a farm during Featuring in thirteen roof! No wonder it the war. Don your walking episodes of the show, M25 was chosen for the legendary first Gerrards Denham shoes and spend a day going LITTLE MISSENDEN episode ‘The Killings at Badger’s Drift’ Cross • back in time. masqueraded as the and the 100th episode ‘The Killings village of Badger’s Drift of Copenhagen’, when 6.5million UK in the show’s very first viewers sat down to watch leading actors from episode. Barnaby and Troy Borgen and The Killing appear alongside DCI John A413/A40 walk around the white-fenced village green to visit Mrs Barnaby and DS Charlie Nelson. M4 M40/M25 Rainbird who spies on villagers from her attic. Earning from Slough London Begin with a blackmail, she and her son are later found hacked to death couple of hours at in their cottage. Before entering Chalfont Amersham Museum to get St. Peter, check out In one direction on a feel for the town’s rich Highmore Cottages is St. Horn Hill Village Hall history. Scenes for ‘Death of a Photo © Barbara Quilley which becomes the John the Baptist Church - Hollow Man’, ‘Blue Herrings’, Brezezinski Dance School in ‘The Point of Balance’ and both internal and external ‘Sauce for the Goose’ and The Chalfont Motor Company is Wells Motor Company shots of this Saxon church ‘Who Killed Cock Robin’ were in ‘Secrets and Spies’. Espionage and cricket collide, appeared in ‘Echoes of the filmed along High Street, and Barnaby resigns in a fit of pique when he’s told not Dead’. Church Street and School Lane. Flint Barn Court (Amersham to get involved after ex-spy Geoffrey Larkin’s body is In the other direction on Town Council) on Church Street is seen in ‘Dead Man’s 11’, found. Highmore Cottages is The Red Lion Pub (1649) which and as Rainbird Funeral Directors in ‘Killings at Badger’s you may recognise as The White Swan in ‘Who Killed Drift’. In ‘Death of a Hollow Man’, Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) is painting stage scenery in preparation for his wife’s Cock Robin’, The Monk’s Retreat in ‘Talking to the Dead’ Stop awhile at the stunning Memorial Gardens to reflect and (Jane Wymark) appearance in Causton Amateur and The Signalman in ‘Echoes of the Dead’. Next door, recharge. Head out on the A355 or the A417 to our next stop, Dramatics’ production of Amadeus. Finding the body of the pub’s meeting room was transformed into Bernard’s or take in one of the following detours en route: Amersham Agnes Gray, coupled with a live stage ‘self-murder’ of hardware shop, where peeping tom, Bernard Flack, looks Hospital which doubled as Causton Hospital in ‘A Sacred her cousin Esslyn Carmichael, leave Barnaby and Troy very uneasy at Barnaby’s arrival. This pretty building also Trust’ and stunning Tudor Mansion Chenies Manor which has (Daniel Casey) looking for the connection. appeared as a shop in ‘The Village that Rose from the appeared in five episodes of the show. Dead’. Behind the pub, the Misbourne itself appears in Follow their trail by starting at ‘Who Killed Cock Robin’ where the duck house is visible in STOP 4 St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic a scene of Joyce feeding the ducks after being abandoned Church, Austenwood, where CHALFONT ST. GILES is a by Tom (again!). they talk to Peggy Marshall in small village with a big history, the Chantry Chapel to find out a filming location for the 1971 if Agnes had anything on her STOP 3 film Dad’s Army and home to mind before she died. Pass On to arguably one of the prettiest market towns in England. the only remaining mill on the Gold Hill Common and Market Stepping into OLD AMERSHAM feels like stepping back Misbourne. Place to Church Lane where in time, whilst giving out an on-trend vibe of entrepreneurial This village of pretty cottages, eating, drinking and shopping establishments. they interview Mr Green in his pubs, manor houses and a snack van. Typically, Barnaby church, village green and a sits reading a newspaper and duck pond has not been filmed enjoying a bacon sandwich from the snack van in the for the show but is as typical car, sending Troy off with the key found around Agnes Midsomer as it gets! neck, to see which garage it fits. Three cannonballs fired by Parliamentarians in the For more information on each village, pop into English Civil War were found i the village libraries or Old Amersham Museum. embedded in St. Giles Parish Church!

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