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Amersham Hall. Amersham Hall was a "school for the sons of dignified gentlemen" in England. From 1829 to 1861 it was in Elmodesham House in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, relocating in 1861 to Caversham in Oxfordshire.
Amersham Market Hall, formerly known as Amersham Town Hall, is a municipal building in the High Street in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. The structure is a Grade II* listed building. History. The town received a royal charter, allowing it to hold markets, from King John in 1200.
- 1682
- Neoclassical style
- Market Hall
- High Street, Amersham
Based largely in a medieval hall house, Amersham Museum explores life in the town’s past through intriguing objects and local stories. Sit at the Tudor dinner table, relax in the 1930s living room, or listen to stories in Ron Haddock’s 1960s record shop. Investigate our timeline display from fossils to dolls houses, and medieval tiles to ...
- The Chilterns
- Old Amersham High Street
- Amersham Museum
- St Mary’s Church
- Amersham Memorial Gardens/Church Mead
- Chenies Manor House
- Old Amersham Market Hall
- Chiltern Open Air Museum
- Milton’s Cottage
- Bekonscot Model Village
Amersham is in a chalk hill range, conserved as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Chilterns are rounded grassy hills with tufts of woodland, sparkling chalk streams, farms and snug old villages for pub lunches. Old Amersham is on one such chalk stream, the River Misbourne and you make a 10-mile walk from the High Street through the Misbour...
The High Street in Old Amersham is one of the loveliest sights in all of the Chilterns. On each side of the street are historic facades in a variety of styles, with 18th-century stucco and brick, Medieval timber frames and a row of gables at the east end. There you’ll come across the Baroque Market Hall, which went up in 1692 and was paid for by th...
You can enter one of the fine old properties on Old Amersham High Street as the local museum is housed in a 15th-century half-timbered house. The Amersham Museum was reworked recently and opened again in summer 2017 with an updated layout and new space for activities and temporary shows. The museum’s Medieval beams are more visible than ever, and o...
The Grade I-listed Medieval church in Old Amersham goes back to the 1200s, with additions made a century later. The exterior was altered during a restoration in 1890 when it was refaced with ashlar limestone dressing and knapped flint. On the north side is a chapel for the Drake family. Both here and in the chancel there’s an array of funerary monu...
Round the back of the High Street there’s a sweet little garden dedicated to Amersham’s servicemen and women killed in the two World Wars. The paths here converge at a central fountain and are edged by flowerbeds, which burst into colour in spring and summer and are given special designs. In 2018 for example there was a 3D display of First World Wa...
Mainly used as a wedding venue, this 16th-century brick mansion can be visited April to October on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Chenies Manor House was built between 1530 and 1550 but is set on the foundations of a much older Medieval building, and the vaulting in the undercroft predates today’s house. For centuries this property belonged to ...
As a gift to the town, Sir William Drake funded the Market Hall on the Market Place in Old Amersham, and it was completed in 1682. From the road you can decipher Drake’s coat of arms, and his initials, W. D.. The upper floor was designed for meetings, by traders’ guilds for instance, while the round-headed arcade on the ground floor is still used f...
Opened in 1976, this nearby museum has rescued 30 historic or culturally important buildings and brought them to a pastoral Chiltern setting among woods, an Arts and Crafts garden, wartime allotment and apple and cherry orchards. The buildings relocated here include Nissen huts from the First and Second World Wars, a farmhouse with animals, an eart...
There’s real English literary history close to the Open Air Museum in the village of Chalfont St Giles. This 16th-century timber-framed cottage is where the 17th-century poet John Milton came in 1665 to escape a plague outbreak in London. In that time Milton, despite being blind at this point in his life, worked on his most famous poems, finishing ...
The oldest original model village in the world is in striking distance of Amersham. Bekonscot sprouted as long ago as 1929 and most of its model buildings are from the 1930s. The village was never supposed to be a tourist attraction, and was a labour of love for the accountant Roland Callingham. Bekonscot gained national attention in the 30s via ne...
Website. About. Amersham Old Town is a charming town that is full of character. There are houses that date back as far as 1450 (housing Amersham Museum) and the Market Hall, that contained the town's gaol, dates from 1682. Historically, Amersham was once a centre for the Lollards, a religious movement following John Wycliffe.
It became known as Amersham Hall and continued to be a successful school. Alfred Slater West took over the school from Ebenezer in 1876. It flourished until compulsory closure following a severe outbreak of Scarlet Fever in 1896.
With its half-timbered houses and handsome Market Hall, Amersham is one of the most photogenic market towns in the Chilterns. What to see Shopping is a relaxing pastime both in Old Amersham and its more modern counterpart on the hill, which grew up on the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway.
