BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Real Buckinghamshire lies north of the River Thames and to the west of Middlesex. It stretches from Eton and Slough in the south right up to the huge new town of Milton Keynes in the north, which is the home of the Open University, whereas the former County Town of Buckingham, which has now ceded that capacity to the larger Aylesbury, is the home of Britain’s only private University. Other pleasant small towns include Amersham, West Wycombe, Chesham and Wendover, with the chalk uplands of the Chilterns never far away.
The history of Buckinghamshire in the last century was very much bound up with the Metropolitan Railway which once ran all the way from Baker Street right through Aylesbury to a remote station on the Oxford to Cambridge line. Since there was no village nearby, they named the station Verney Junction after the local landowner Sir Harry Verney. Today’s Metropolitan, however, runs only to Amersham and Chesham: Verney Junction has passed, like Sir Harry himself, into history.

Girls’ Chess in Buckinghamshire

We would be very pleased to hear from anyone who would like to organise a girls’ team for Buckinghamshire.

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