'''Buckinghamshire''' [http://www.visitbuckinghamshire.org/] is a county in the South East of England, located to the north west of London.
Towns
Amersham
Aylesbury
Beaconsfield
Bletchley
Bourne End
Buckingham
Chesham
High Wycombe
Marlow
Princes Risborough
Stony Stratford
Wendover
Winslow
Understand
Bucks is a middle-size county, stretching from West London, near Heathrow Airport, to the outer reach of the Midlands. It borders, going clockwise from London, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and London. It is home to about 712,000 people with substantial residential growth in the centre. It is known as ''Leafy Bucks'' to some, due to the idyllic rolling hills and vast woodlands but also contains several large towns, mainly High Wycombe (pop. 118,000), Milton Keynes (184,000) and Aylesbury (pop. 65,000) which all have great tourist attractions as well as shopping opertunities.
Bucks is also home to ''Chequers Court'', the Prime Ministers country residence and ''Pinewood Studios'' where many world famous films and television shows are filmed. It has homed many famous people including Roald Dahl, the childrens author, who lived (and died) in Bucks for 30 years.
Get in
By plane
The nearest international airport is London Heathrow, just outside Bucks in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Other international airports within reach include London Gatwick, London Luton and London Stanstead as well as London City Airport. Smaller airports and airfields are dotted around the county.
By train
Most rail services in Bucks radiate out from London. The '''north''' of the county (Milton Keynes) is served by the West Coast Main line with services to London Euston and north to Scotland. The '''middle and south''' of the county are served by Chiltern Railways' two main lines: one between London Marylebone and Aylesbury, and the other between London Marylebone and Birmingham/Stratford-upon-Avon calling at High Wycombe. There are plans to extend the Aylesbury line north to meet the West Coast Main line at Milton Keynes and possibly even further north to Rugby and Leicester using the old trackbed of the Great Central Main line, which closed in 1966. The very '''southern tip''' of the county is served by the Great Western Main line, although only two stations (Taplow and Iver) are in Bucks, with services to London Paddington and west to Reading.
By car
Four motorways venture into Buckinghamshire, although only two run in the county for a reasonable distance:
The M1 serves the north of Buckinghamshire, mainly Milton Keynes
The M40 serves the south of the county, largely High Wycombe
The M25 enters Bucks for its junctions with the M40 and M4
The M4 serves Slough and Taplow
Other notable roads include:
A40 which parallels the M40 until Oxford
A41 which goes through Aylesbury, the county town
A5 which goes through Milton Keynes
By bus
Arriva and Carousel run most bus services in the south and centre of the county. Milton Keynes has its own bus company.
Get around
See
'''The Chiltern Hills'''. A chalk escarpment that stretches in a south-west to north-east diagonal from Goring-On-Thames to Luton, and is most prominent in Buckinghamshire.
The many '''stately homes and fine gardens''' that are numerous in Bucks including ''Waddesdon Manor'', ''Hughendon Manor'', ''Clivedon House'', ''Stowe Landscape Gardens'' and ''West Wycombe Park''.
The unusual hand-dug [http://www.hellfirecaves.co.uk/ Hellfire Caves]. Constructed by the locals in the 1740s for Francis Dashwood (although possibly earlier), they were the location for meetings of the Hellfire Club.
The '''Buckinghamshire Railway Centre''', just north of Aylesbury
'''Beaconscot Model Village''', in Beaconsfield, is the oldest model village in the world and very popular. Depicting England in the 1930s, a highlight is the model railway whic runs all around the village.
Eat
The large areas of countryside include many country pubs, serving excellent food. Restaurants are also found in rural areas but are more common in the urban areas.
Drink
Like most of England, almost every village in Bucks has a local pub, larger ones having more.
Stay safe
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