Amersham is a market town and civil parish within the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire. It is approximately 27 miles North West of London and is part of the ever growing London commuter belt. If you are looking for the perfect companion while you are visiting Amersham then look no further as one of our
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Amersham is divided into two clear areas: Old Amersham which is set in the valley of the River Misbourne and this area contains the 13th century parish church of St.Mary’s as well as several old pubs and coaching inns: Amersham-on-the-Hill has grown significantly around the railway station since the early part of the 20th century.
Amersham history dates back to pre-Anglo-Saxon times and was then known as Egmondesham but by the time the Domesday Book was written around 1086 it was known as Elmodesham and the Domesday entry is as follows: ‘Geoffrey de Mandeville holds Amersham. It answers for 7 hides. Land for 16 ploughs; in lordship 2 hides; 3 ploughs there. 14 villagers with 4 smallholders have 9 ploughs; a further 4 possible. 7 slaves; meadow for 16 ploughs; woodland 400 pigs. The total value is and was £9; before 1066 £16. Queen Edith held this manor’. Queen Edith was the wife of Edward the Confessor and the sister of King Harold and after her death in 1075 William the Conqueror inherited the land who then granted it to Geoffrey de Mandeville.
Geoffrey, Earl of Essex obtained a charter for Amersham in the year 1200 which allowed him to hold a Friday market and a fair on the 7th and 8th September then in 1613 a new charter was granted to Edward Earl of Bedford which changed the market day to Tuesday and established a statute fair on the 19th September.
A memorial was built in 1931 to seven Lollard dissenters, six men and one woman who were burned at the stake in Amersham in the year 1521, (William Tylsworth, Thomas Barnard, James Morden, John Scrivener, Robert Rave, Thomas Holmes and Joan Norman). The inscription on the memorial is as follows: “In the shallow of depression at a spot 100 yards left of this monument seven Protestants, six men and one woman were burned to death at the stake. They died for the principles of religious liberty, for the right to read and interpret the Holy Sciptures and to worship God according to their consciences as revealed through God’s Holy Word”.
Television programmes filmed in Amersham include Metro-land in 1973, Midsomer Murders (seven episodes) and The Peter Principle (1990s). In addition to television the town has been used in a number of films and the two most recent have been Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994 and Metroland in 1997.
