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• Bedfordshire
  ...though the southern end of the county is swept by the chalk ridge of the [[Chiltern Hills]], where the county's highest elevation is found, at 800 feet, on the *{{i-OpenSpace}} [[Chiltern Hills]]
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• Buckinghamshire
  The delightful [[Chiltern Hills]], sweeping through the south of the county, give the shire much of i ...y. The south leads from the [[River Thames]] up the gentle slopes of the [[Chiltern Hills]] to the more abrupt slopes on the northern side leading to the [[Val
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• Dunstable
  ...border with [[Hertfordshire]]. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the [[Chiltern Hills]], which form several steep chalk escarpments most noticeable when ap ...story.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42447&strquery=dunstable British History on line - Dunstable] Retrieved, 30 June 2009</ref> In 1123 a royal residence was bu
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• Aylesbury
  ...entre in its own right and as a commuter town, linked by the Chiltern Main Line to London's Marylebone Station.
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• Witney
  ...The chapel was made the factory canteen. In 1979 Crawford Collets had the main buildings demolished and replaced with a modern factory, but preserved the ...ened Witney's first station in 1861, linking the town to Yarnton where the line joined the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. In 1873 the East Gl
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• Wembley
  ...ilt alongside the main lines. [[London Underground#Bakerloo Line|Bakerloo Line]] trains, and electric trains to Broad Street started in 1917. Electric tra ...f Wembley, and [[Northolt]] Junction, further west, where a new joint main line with the Great Western Railway began. Local passenger services from [[Maryl
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• Ruislip
  ..., to serve the growing population. He used the priory at Manor Farm as his main residence <ref>Bowlt 2007, p.11</ref> The first recorded vicar was William ...ussed as it was known that a station would be opened in Ruislip on the new line. Councillors were also aware that King's College, Cambridge, owners of much
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• Denham, Buckinghamshire
  The parish's eastern boundary with Middlesex is formed by the original line of the [[River Colne]], which is a little obscured by the [[Grand Union Can The Station on Chiltern Main Line, providing a communter route to [[London]]. Denham railway station has dire
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• Kings Langley
  ...Langley''' is a village in [[Hertfordshire]] on the southern edge of the [[Chiltern Hills]] and now considered part of the London commuter belt. It was once th ...tp://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43274 British History On-line]</ref> and a palace was built on the hill above the village to its west wit
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• Watford
  ...ulbourne|Bulbourne]] valley to a low and easily traversed section of the [[Chiltern Hills]] near [[Tring]]. ...d communications into the vale of [[St Albans]] to the east and into the [[Chiltern Hills]] along the valley of the [[River Chess]] to the west. In 1100 Henry
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• Hemel Hempstead
  ...d latterly railway lines follow the gap carved by the rivers through the [[Chiltern Hills]] from London toward the Midlands. The main railway line between London and the Midlands passes through Apsley and Hemel Hempstead r
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• Bushey
  ...heory is more apt, as the town is located on the border of the [[Chilterns|Chiltern]] valleys, which were once covered in dense forests of oak, elm, ash, hazel ...n unearthed in the area. A Roman tessellated pavement was discovered near Chiltern Avenue.
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• Bledlow
  ...explored by Chiltern Railways, the franchise holder for the Chiltern Main Line which runs through Princes Risborough.
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• Grand Union Canal
  ...' The Grand Union Canal]</ref> It also has arms reaching out from the main line to other towns, including [[Leicester]], [[Slough]], [[Aylesbury]], [[Wendo ...d Union Canal" was also used for part of what is now part of the Leicester Line of the modern Grand Union: this latter is now generally referred to as the
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• Wendover
  ...ver''' is a small market town in [[Buckinghamshire]], at the foot of the [[Chiltern Hills]], to the south-east of Aylesbury. ...sy access to London by road, partly to Wendover railway station, served by Chiltern Railways from London Marylebone]] by way of [[Amersham]], and partly becaus
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• Goring-on-Thames
  ...s, in the [[Goring Gap]] which separates the [[Berkshire Downs]] and the [[Chiltern Hills]]. ...and the [[Ridgeway]] cross the Thames at Goring. The [[Great Western Main Line]] railway passes through Goring, and Goring & Streatley railway station in
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• Berkhamsted
  Berkhamsted is in the [[Chiltern Hills]], in the wide valley of the [[River Bulbourne]], to the west of Heme {{Main|Berkhamsted Castle}}
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• Islip, Oxfordshire
  In the 18th century Islip developed as a staging post on the main coaching route between [[London]] and [[Worcester]]. A number of the curren ...d opened a new Islip station in 1989. Islip station will be enlarged under Chiltern Railways' Evergreen 3 project and will have new services when the East West
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• Luton Airport
  ...lley of the [[River Lea]] cuts its way through the north-east end of the [[Chiltern Hills]], the airport occupies a hill-top location, with a roughly 130-foot ...en major package holiday operator Clarksons and its in-house airline Court Line (which also operated local bus services) went bankrupt.
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• St Fagans
  ...There was once a railway station in the village, and the South Wales Main Line still runs through ...ture of Wales is made of masonry. The same model has been imitated at the Chiltern Open Air Museum in [[Chalfont St Peter]], [[Buckinghamshire]], though the l
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