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Chiltern Hills

Index Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England. [1]

284 relations: A41 road, A413 road, African Plate, Aldbury, Alpine orogeny, Amersham, Apsley, Hertfordshire, Aquifer, Arable land, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Ashridge, Aston Clinton, Aston Rowant, Aylesbury, Aylesbury Canal Society, Aylesbury Vale, Barton-le-Clay, Beaconsfield, Bedfordshire, Beech, Bellingdon, Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted railway station, Berkshire Downs, Birch, Bledlow, Bledlow Ridge, Bourne (stream), Bovingdon, Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, Brick, Britannia Superior, British Iron Age, Buckinghamshire, Buckland Common, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Building, Caddington, Cement, Chair, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter, Chalk, Chalk Group, Chalk stream, Chartridge, Checkendon, Chesham, Chiltern Green, Chiltern Hundreds, ..., Chiltern Main Line, Chinnor, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, Cholesbury, Christmas Common, Cilternsæte, Clay, Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, Commuting, Construction, Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire, Cotswolds, Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Cranborne Chase, Dagnall, Diachronous, Diagenesis, Dip slope, Downland, Drainage basin, Drayton Beauchamp, Dunsmore, Buckinghamshire, Dunstable, Dunstable Downs, Eaton Bray, Edlesborough, Ellesborough, Enclosure, England, Erosion, Escarpment, Eurasian Plate, Fawley, Buckinghamshire, Fingest, Flackwell Heath, Flint, Flint axe, Flintlock, Frieth, Gault, Gerrards Cross, Goring-on-Thames, Grand Union Canal, Grazing, Great and Little Hampden, Great and Little Kimble, Great Kingshill, Great Missenden, Great Western main line, Greensand, Haddington Hill, Halton, Buckinghamshire, Hambleden, Hardwood, Harlington, Bedfordshire, Hawridge, Hazlemere, Hemel Hempstead, Henley branch line, Henley-on-Thames, Hertfordshire, Hexton, High Speed 2, High Wycombe, High Wycombe railway station, History of Anglo-Saxon England, Hitchin, Holmer Green, Horsenden, Hostel, House of Tudor, Hughenden Valley, Human settlement, Ibstone, Ice age, Ice sheet, Icknield Way, Icknield Way Path, Inversion (geology), Ipsden, Isle of Wight, Ivinghoe Beacon, Jagdschloss, Jordans, Buckinghamshire, Kensworth, Kiln, King's Walden, Knapping, Lacey Green, Lane End, Buckinghamshire, Late Cretaceous, Latimer, Buckinghamshire, Leighton Buzzard, Lewknor, Ley Hill, Lilley, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire Wolds, Little Chalfont, Little Gaddesden, Little Kingshill, Little Missenden, London Paddington station, London–Aylesbury line, Long-distance trail, Lumber, Luton, Luton Airport, M1 motorway, M40 motorway, Manufacturing, Markyate, Marlow Bottom, Marlow branch line, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Marsworth, Medmenham, Member of parliament, Mesozoic, Middle Ages, Midland Main Line, Millennium, Mongewell, Monks Risborough, Naphill, National parks of England and Wales, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Natural resource, Neolithic, Nettlebed, Newnham Murren, Nodule (geology), Norfolk, Nuffield, Oxfordshire, Offley, Overexploitation, Oxfordshire, Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit, Penn, Buckinghamshire, Pishill, Pitstone, Planning permission, Pond, Pottery, Prehistory, Prestwood, Princes Risborough, Princes Risborough railway station, Pumping station, Pyrton, Quarry, Radnage, Redbourn, Resignation from the British House of Commons, River Bulbourne, River Chess, River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Flit, River Gade, River Great Ouse, River Hiz, River Ivel, River Lea, River Mimram, River Misbourne, River Ouzel, River Thame, River Thames, River Ver, River Wye, Buckinghamshire, Roman Britain, Roman Empire, Roman province, Romano-British culture, Rural area, Salisbury Plain, Saunderton, Sea level, Seer Green, Sharpenhoe, Sheep, Shiplake, Shirburn, Shrubland, Siliciclastic, Skirmett, South Downs, South Stoke, Oxfordshire, Southend, Buckinghamshire, Speen, Buckinghamshire, St Albans, St Leonards, Buckinghamshire, Stoke Mandeville, Stokenchurch, Stokenchurch BT Tower, Stokenchurch Gap, Stonor, Stratum, Streatley, Bedfordshire, Strip parish, Studham, Summit, Tectonics, Thame, Thameslink, The Lee, The Ridgeway, Toddington, Bedfordshire, Totternhoe, Tring, Turville, Tylers Green, Vale of Pickering, Verulamium, Walters Ash, Water, Water well, Watercress, Watlington, Oxfordshire, Weald Basin, Wendover, Wendover Arm Canal, West Coast Main Line, West Wycombe, Weston Turville, Whipsnade, Whitwell, Hertfordshire, Wigginton, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire, Woodcote, Woodland, Wycombe Wanderers F.C., Yorkshire Wolds, Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales), Zouches Farm transmitting station. Expand index (234 more) »

A41 road

The A41 is a major trunk road in England that links London and Birkenhead, although it has now in parts been superseded by motorways.

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A413 road

The A413 is a major road in England that links Gerrards Cross to Towcester.

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African Plate

The African Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator as well as the prime meridian.

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Aldbury

Aldbury is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the Bulbourne valley close to Ashridge Park.

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Alpine orogeny

The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt.

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Amersham

Amersham is a market town and civil parish within the Chiltern district in Buckinghamshire, England, north-west of London, in the Chiltern Hills.

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Apsley, Hertfordshire

Apsley was a 19th-century mill village in the county of Hertfordshire, England.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Arable land

Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is, according to one definition, land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Ashridge

Ashridge is a country estate and stately home in Hertfordshire, England in the United Kingdom; part of the land stretches into Buckinghamshire and it is close to the Bedfordshire border.

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Aston Clinton

Aston Clinton is a historic village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Aston Rowant

Aston Rowant is a village and civil parish about south of Thame in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Aylesbury Canal Society

The Aylesbury Canal Society is a waterway society on the Grand Union Canal, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Aylesbury Vale

The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a large area of gently rolling agricultural landscape located in the northern half of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Barton-le-Clay

Barton-le-Clay is a village and a civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England.

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Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire centred WNW of London and SSE of the county's administrative town, Aylesbury.

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Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds.) is a county in the East of England.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Bellingdon

Bellingdon the name deriving from the Anglo Saxon Bellingdenu or Bella's Valley, and is recorded as Belenden in the 15th century, is a village in the civil parish of Chartridge (where the 2011 Census was included), in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Berkhamsted

Berkhamsted is a historic market town close to the western boundary of Hertfordshire, England, in the small Bulbourne valley in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of London.

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Berkhamsted railway station

Berkhamsted railway station is in the town of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England.

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Berkshire Downs

The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Bledlow

Bledlow is a village in the civil parish of Bledlow-cum-Saunderton in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Bledlow Ridge

Bledlow Ridge is a village in the civil parish of Bledlow-cum-Saunderton in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Bourne (stream)

A bourne is an intermittent stream, flowing from a spring.

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Bovingdon

Bovingdon is a large village in Hertfordshire, England, four miles southwest of Hemel Hempstead, and it is a civil parish within the local authority area of Dacorum.

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Bradenham, Buckinghamshire

Bradenham is a village and civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Brick

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Britannia Superior

Britannia Superior (Latin for "Upper Britain") was one of the provinces of Roman Britain created around 197 by Emperor Septimius Severus immediately after winning a civil war against Clodius Albinus, a war fought to determine who would be the next emperor.

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British Iron Age

The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Buckland Common

Buckland Common is a hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Buckland, Buckinghamshire

Buckland is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Building

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.

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Caddington

Caddington is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens and adheres to other materials, binding them together.

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Chair

A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface supported by legs, commonly used to seat a single person.

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Chalfont St Giles

Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish within the Chiltern district in south east Buckinghamshire, England, on the edge of the Chilterns, from London, and near Seer Green, Jordans, Chalfont St Peter, Little Chalfont and Amersham.

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Chalfont St Peter

Chalfont St Peter is a village and civil parish in Chiltern district in south-east Buckinghamshire, England.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

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Chalk Group

The Chalk Group (often just called the Chalk) is the lithostratigraphic unit (a certain number of rock strata) which contains the late Cretaceous limestone succession in southern and eastern England.

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Chalk stream

Chalk streams are streams that flow through chalk hills towards the sea.

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Chartridge

Chartridge is a village in Buckinghamshire, England situated 2 miles North West of Chesham.

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Checkendon

Checkendon is a village and civil parish about west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about north west of Reading in Berkshire on a mid-height swathe of the Chilterns.

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Chesham

Chesham is a market town in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Chiltern Green

Chiltern Green is a hamlet located in Bedfordshire, England.

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Chiltern Hundreds

The Chiltern Hundreds is an ancient administrative area in Buckinghamshire, England, composed of three "hundreds" and lying partially within the Chiltern Hills.

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Chiltern Main Line

The Chiltern Main Line is an inter-urban, regional and commuter railway, part of the British railway system.

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Chinnor

Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about southeast of Thame.

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Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and (at present) only station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Cholesbury

Cholesbury (recorded as Chelwardisbyry in the 13th century) is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, on the border with Hertfordshire.

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Christmas Common

Christmas Common is a hamlet in Watlington civil parish, Oxfordshire about south of Thame in Oxfordshire, close to the boundary with Buckinghamshire.

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Cilternsæte

The Cilternsæte (or Ciltern Sætna) were a tribe that occupied the Chilterns, probably in the 6th century AD.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Coleshill, Buckinghamshire

Coleshill (formerly Stoke) is a village and civil parish within Chiltern district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Commuting

Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residence and place of work, or study, and in doing so exceed the boundary of their residential community.

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Construction

Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure.

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Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire

Coombe Hill is a hill in The Chilterns, located next to the hamlet of Dunsmore, Buckinghamshire, England, near the small town of Wendover, and overlooking Aylesbury Vale.

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Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is an area in south central England containing the Cotswold Hills, a range of rolling hills which rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment, known as the Cotswold Edge, above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.

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Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, known as the CRoW Act is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament affecting England and Wales which came into force on 30 November 2000.

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Cranborne Chase

Cranborne Chase is a chalk plateau in central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.

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Dagnall

Dagnall is a village in the parish of Edlesborough, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Diachronous

A diachronous (Greek dia, through + Chronos) deposit in geology is a sedimentary rock formation in which apparently similar material varies in age from place to place.

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Diagenesis

Diagenesis is the change of sediments or existing sedimentary rocks into a different sedimentary rock during and after rock formation (lithification), at temperatures and pressures less than that required for the formation of metamorphic rocks.

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Dip slope

A dip slope is a topographic (geomorphic) surface which slopes in the same direction, and often by the same amount, as the true dip or apparent dip of the underlying strata.

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Downland

A downland is an area of open chalk hills.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Drayton Beauchamp

Drayton Beauchamp (pronounced 'Beecham') is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Dunsmore, Buckinghamshire

Dunsmore is a hamlet in the parish of Ellesborough, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Dunstable

Dunstable is a market town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England.

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Dunstable Downs

Dunstable Downs are part of the Chiltern Hills, in southern Bedfordshire in England.

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Eaton Bray

Eaton Bray is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England.

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Edlesborough

Edlesborough is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Ellesborough

Ellesborough is a village and civil parish in Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Enclosure

Enclosure (sometimes inclosure) was the legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

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Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as an effect of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively leveled areas having differing elevations.

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Eurasian Plate

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia.

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Fawley, Buckinghamshire

Fawley is a village and civil parish in Wycombe district in the south-western corner of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Fingest

Fingest is a village in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Flackwell Heath

Flackwell Heath is a village in the civil parish of Chepping Wycombe on the outskirts of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire England.

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Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert.

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Flint axe

A flint axe was a Flint tool used during prehistoric times to perform a variety of tasks.

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Flintlock

Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint striking ignition mechanism.

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Frieth

Frieth is a village in the parish of Hambleden, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Gault

Gault is a rock formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep-water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period (Upper and Middle Albian).

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Gerrards Cross

Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north of Fulmer and Hedgerley.

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Goring-on-Thames

Goring-on-Thames (or Goring) is a relatively large village and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, about south of Wallingford and north-west of Reading.

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Grand Union Canal

The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system.

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Grazing

Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.

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Great and Little Hampden

Great and Little Hampden is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about three miles south-east of Princes Risborough.

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Great and Little Kimble

Great and Little Kimble is a civil parish in Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire.

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Great Kingshill

Great Kingshill is a small village in the parish of Hughenden in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Great Missenden

Great Missenden is an affluent village with approximately 2,000 residents in the Misbourne Valley in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England, situated between the towns of Amersham and Wendover, with direct rail connections to London Marylebone.

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Great Western main line

The Great Western main line is a main line railway in England, that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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Greensand

Greensand or green sand is a sand or sandstone which has a greenish color.

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Haddington Hill

Haddington Hill (also called Wendover Hill) is a hill in The Chilterns, and the highest point in the English county of Buckinghamshire.

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Halton, Buckinghamshire

Halton is a small village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England and is located about 2 miles north of Wendover & 5 miles southeast of Aylesbury.

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Hambleden

Hambleden is a small village and civil parish within Wycombe district in the south of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees.

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Harlington, Bedfordshire

Harlington is a village and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England, near the M1 motorway.

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Hawridge

Hawridge, (recorded as Hoquerug in the 12th century) is a small village in the Chilterns in the county of Buckinghamshire, England and bordering the county boundary with Hertfordshire.

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Hazlemere

Hazlemere is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, 2.5 miles northeast of High Wycombe on the A404 leading to Amersham which intersects with the B474 at Hazlemere.

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Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead is a new town in Hertfordshire, England.

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Henley branch line

| The Henley Branch Line is a branch railway line between Twyford in Berkshire and Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.

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Henley-on-Thames

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead and southeast of Oxford, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Hexton

Hexton is a small village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, about west of Hitchin.

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High Speed 2

High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, directly linking London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.

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High Wycombe

High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England.

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High Wycombe railway station

High Wycombe railway station is a railway station in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.

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Hitchin

Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 33,350.

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Holmer Green

Historically, Holmer Green was a hamlet in the civil parish of Little Missenden, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Horsenden

Horsenden is a hamlet in Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire, England and is in the civil parish of Longwick-cum-Ilmer.

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Hostel

Hostels provide budget-oriented, sociable accommodation where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed, in a dormitory and share a bathroom, lounge and sometimes a kitchen.

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House of Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd.

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Hughenden Valley

Hughenden Valley (formerly called Hughenden or Hitchendon) is an extensive village and civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England, just to the north of High Wycombe.

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Human settlement

In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.

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Ibstone

Ibstone (previously Ipstone) is a village and civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice sheet

An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than, this is also known as continental glacier.

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Icknield Way

The Icknield Way is an ancient trackway in southern and eastern England that goes from Norfolk to Wiltshire.

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Icknield Way Path

The Icknield Way Path or Icknield Way Trail is a long distance footpath in East Anglia, England.

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Inversion (geology)

In structural geology inversion or basin inversion relates to the relative uplift of a sedimentary basin or similar structure as a result of crustal shortening.

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Ipsden

Ipsden is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, about southeast of Wallingford.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.

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Ivinghoe Beacon

Ivinghoe Beacon is a prominent hill and landmark in the Chiltern Hills, standing 233 m (757 ft) above sea level.

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Jagdschloss

Jagdschloss is the German term for a hunting lodge.

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Jordans, Buckinghamshire

Jordans is a village located in Chalfont St Giles parish in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Kensworth

Kensworth is a village and civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

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Kiln

A kiln (or, originally pronounced "kill", with the "n" silent) is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.

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King's Walden

King's Walden is a civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire.

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Knapping

Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.

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Lacey Green

Lacey Green is a village and civil parish in Wycombe district near Princes Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Lane End, Buckinghamshire

Lane End is a village and civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.

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Latimer, Buckinghamshire

Latimer is a village that sits on the border between Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England.

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Leighton Buzzard

Leighton Buzzard is a town in Bedfordshire, England near the Chiltern Hills and lying between Luton and Milton Keynes.

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Lewknor

Lewknor is a village and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire.The civil parish includes the villages of Postcombe and South Weston.

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Ley Hill

For the area in Birmingham, England see Ley Hill, Birmingham Ley Hill is a Chiltern village on the Bucks/Herts border near the town of Chesham in south-east England.

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Lilley, Hertfordshire

Lilley is a small village and civil parish situated between Hitchin and Luton in Hertfordshire, England.

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Lincolnshire Wolds

The Lincolnshire Wolds is a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England.

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Little Chalfont

Little Chalfont is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Little Gaddesden

Little Gaddesden is a village and civil parish in the Dacorum, Hertfordshire north of Berkhamsted.

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Little Kingshill

Little Kingshill is a small village in the parish of Little Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Little Missenden

Little Missenden is a village and civil parish on the River Misbourne in Buckinghamshire, England.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.

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London–Aylesbury line

The London–Aylesbury Line is a railway line between London (Marylebone) and Aylesbury, going via the Chiltern Hills; it is operated by Chiltern Railways.

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Long-distance trail

A long-distance trail (or long-distance track, path, footpath or greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas, used for non-motorized recreational walking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Luton

Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, England, Luton east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.

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Luton Airport

London Luton Airport, previously called Luton International Airport, is an international airport located east of the town centre in the Borough of Luton in Bedfordshire, England, and is north of Central London.

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M1 motorway

The M1 is a motorway in England connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.

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M40 motorway

The M40 is a motorway connecting London and Birmingham; part of this road forms a section of the unsigned European route E05.

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

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Markyate

Markyate is a village and civil parish in northwest Hertfordshire close to the border with Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Marlow Bottom

Marlow Bottom is a large linear village occupying a valley to the north of Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

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Marlow branch line

The Marlow branch line is a single track railway line between Maidenhead in Berkshire and Bourne End and Marlow in Buckinghamshire.

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Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow (historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England.

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Marsworth

Marsworth is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Medmenham

Medmenham is a village and civil parish in the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Midland Main Line

The Midland Main Line is a major railway line in England from London to Sheffield in the north of England.

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Millennium

A millennium (plural millennia or, rarely, millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears.

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Mongewell

Mongewell (first syllable rhymes with sponge) is a village in the civil parish of Crowmarsh, about south of Wallingford in Oxfordshire.

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Monks Risborough

Monks Risborough is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Buckinghamshire, England, lying between Princes Risborough and Great Kimble.

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Naphill

Naphill is a village in the parish of Hughenden Valley, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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National parks of England and Wales

The national parks of England and Wales are areas of relatively undeveloped and scenic landscape that are designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (2016).

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Nettlebed

Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills about northwest of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire and southeast of Wallingford.

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Newnham Murren

Newnham Murren is a hamlet in the Thames Valley in South Oxfordshire, about east of the market town of Wallingford.

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Nodule (geology)

In sedimentology and geology, a nodule is small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate that typically has a contrasting composition, such as a pyrite nodule in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale, from the enclosing sediment or sedimentary rock.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Nuffield, Oxfordshire

Nuffield is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, England, just over east of Wallingford.

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Offley

Offley is a civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire, between Hitchin and Luton.

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Overexploitation

Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit

Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit is a 79 hectare nature reserve in Pegsdon in Bedfordshire.

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Penn, Buckinghamshire

Penn is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Pishill

Pishill is a hamlet in Pishill with Stonor civil parish about north of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire.

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Pitstone

Pitstone (formerly Pightelsthorn, with possible variation Pychelesthorn in 1399) is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Planning permission

Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation) in some jurisdictions.

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Pond

A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or artificial, that is usually smaller than a lake.

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Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Prestwood

Prestwood is a village in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Princes Risborough

Princes Risborough is an affluent small town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 9 miles south of Aylesbury and 8 miles north west of High Wycombe.

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Princes Risborough railway station

Princes Risborough station is a railway station on the Chiltern Main Line that serves the town of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Pumping station

Pumping stations are facilities including pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.

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Pyrton

Pyrton is a small village and large civil parish in Oxfordshire about north of the small town of Watlington and south of Thame.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Radnage

Radnage is a village and civil parish in the Wycombe District of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Redbourn

Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, lying on Watling Street, three miles (4.8 km) from Harpenden, four miles (6.4 km) from St Albans and five miles (8 km) from Hemel Hempstead.

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Resignation from the British House of Commons

Members of Parliament (MPs) sitting in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically not permitted to resign their seats.

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River Bulbourne

The River Bulbourne is a small river in Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England.

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River Chess

The River Chess, a chalk stream, rises just north of Chesham in the Chiltern Hills, to flow through Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to join the River Colne in Rickmansworth.

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River Colne, Hertfordshire

The Colne is a river in England which is a tributary of the River Thames.

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River Flit

The River Flit is a short river in Bedfordshire, England.

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River Gade

The River Gade is a river running almost entirely though Hertfordshire.

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River Great Ouse

The River Great Ouse is a river in the United Kingdom, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse".

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River Hiz

The River Hiz is a small tributary river in Hertfordshire that feeds the River Ivel that, in turn, feeds the River Great Ouse.

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River Ivel

The River Ivel is a north-flowing river in the western part of east of England.

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River Lea

The River Lea in England originates in Leagrave, Luton in the Chiltern Hills and flows generally southeast, east, and then south through east London where it meets the River Thames, the last looping section being known as Bow Creek.

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River Mimram

The River Mimram is a river in Hertfordshire, England.

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River Misbourne

The River Misbourne rises in a field on the outskirts of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and flows down the Misbourne valley to join the River Colne just north of where the latter is crossed by the A40 Western Avenue.

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River Ouzel

The River Ouzel, also known as the River Lovat, is a river in England, and a tributary of the River Great Ouse.

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River Thame

The River Thame is a river in Southern England.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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River Ver

The Ver is a river in Hertfordshire, England.

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River Wye, Buckinghamshire

The River Wye is a river in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) was the basic and, until the Tetrarchy (from 293 AD), the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside Italy.

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Romano-British culture

Romano-British culture is the culture that arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Salisbury Plain

Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering.

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Saunderton

Saunderton is a village in the Misbourne Valley in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Seer Green

Seer Green is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Sharpenhoe

Sharpenhoe is a small village in Bedfordshire, England, at the foot of the hills known as the Sharpenhoe Clappers, which are within the Chilterns AONB.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Shiplake

Shiplake is a two-centred village and rural civil parish on the left bank of the River Thames centred south of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England.

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Shirburn

Shirburn is a village and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire.

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Shrubland

Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.

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Siliciclastic

Siliciclastic rocks (commonly misspelled siliclastic) are clastic noncarbonate sedimentary rocks that are almost exclusively silica-bearing, either as forms of quartz or other silicate minerals.

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Skirmett

Skirmett is a hamlet in the parish of Hambleden, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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South Downs

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east.

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South Stoke, Oxfordshire

South Stoke is a village and civil parish on an east bank of the Thames, about north of Goring-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire.

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Southend, Buckinghamshire

Southend is a hamlet, in the civil parish of Turville (where at the 2011 Census the population was included) near to the village of the same name in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Speen, Buckinghamshire

Speen is a village hamlet in the Chiltern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, situated in the parish of Princes Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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St Albans

St Albans is a city in Hertfordshire, England, and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans.

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St Leonards, Buckinghamshire

St Leonards is a small village in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stoke Mandeville

Stoke Mandeville is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stokenchurch

Stokenchurch is a village and civil parish within Wycombe District in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stokenchurch BT Tower

Stokenchurch BT Tower is a telecommunications tower built of reinforced concrete at Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stokenchurch Gap

The Stokenchurch Gap, also known as the Aston Rowant Cutting or Aston Hill cutting (from the nearby village of Aston Rowant), or locally "The Canyon" is a steep chalk cutting, constructed through the Chiltern Hills on the border between Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England during the early 1970s for the M40 motorway.

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Stonor

Stonor is a mostly cultivated and wooded village centred north of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Stratum

In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.

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Streatley, Bedfordshire

Streatley is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

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Strip parish

A strip parish is a parish with a narrow elongated shape, typically formed during the Anglo-Saxon and early medieval period.

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Studham

Studham is a village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire.

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Summit

A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.

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Tectonics

Tectonics is the process that controls the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.

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Thame

Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of the city of Oxford and southwest of the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury.

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Thameslink

Thameslink is a 24 hour, 115-station main-line route in the British railway system running from,, and via central London to Sutton,, and.

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The Lee

The Lee (formally known as just Lee) is a village in Buckinghamshire, England.

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The Ridgeway

The ancient tree-lined path winds over the downs countryside The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road.

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Toddington, Bedfordshire

Toddington is a large village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire, England.

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Totternhoe

Totternhoe is a village and civil parish in the Manshead hundred of the county of Bedfordshire, England.

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Tring

Tring is a small market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England.

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Turville

Turville is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Tylers Green

Tylers Green is a village in the civil parish of Chepping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, replaced at the 2011 Census by the civil parish of Tylers Green and Loud water.

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Vale of Pickering

The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England.

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Verulamium

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.

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Walters Ash

Walters Ash (also sometimes called Walter's Ash) is a village in the parish of Bradenham, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Water

Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.

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Water well

A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.

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Watercress

Watercress is an aquatic plant species with the botanical name Nasturtium officinale. This should not be confused with the profoundly different and unrelated group of plants with the common name of nasturtium, within the genus Tropaeolum.

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Watlington, Oxfordshire

Watlington is a market town and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and less than from its border with Buckinghamshire.

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Weald Basin

The Weald Basin is a major topographic feature of the area that is now southern England and northern France from the Triassic to the Late Cretaceous.

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Wendover

Wendover is a market town at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Wendover Arm Canal

The Wendover Arm Canal is part of the Grand Union Canal in England, and forms part of the British canal system.

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West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.

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West Wycombe

West Wycombe is a small village situated along the A40 road, three miles west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Weston Turville

Weston Turville is a historic village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Whipsnade

Whipsnade is a small village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire.

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Whitwell, Hertfordshire

Whitwell is a village in the parish of St Paul's Walden about six miles south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England.

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Wigginton, Hertfordshire

Wigginton (Wigentone - 1086) is a large village and civil parish running north-south and perched at on the edge of the Chiltern Hills and aside the border with Buckinghamshire.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Woodcote

Woodcote is a village in the civil parish of South Oxfordshire, about southeast of Wallingford and about northwest of Reading, Berkshire.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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Wycombe Wanderers F.C.

Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Yorkshire Wolds

The Yorkshire Wolds are low hills in the counties of East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire in north-eastern England.

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Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales)

The Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) is a charitable organisation, registered with the Charity Commission, providing youth hostel accommodation in England and Wales.

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Zouches Farm transmitting station

Zouches Farm transmitting station is a microwave radio link site located near the top of Blows Downs at Zouches Farm, Caddington, Bedfordshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiltern_Hills

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