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Charming; noted for its medieval centre.
Iron Age fort on Boddington Hill. Baron Alfred de Rothschild built Halton House, now an RAF establishment, in 1841.
Mill at Hambleden Mill End. The 17th century manor house owned by Viscount Hambleden, was the birthplace of the 7th Earl Cardigan who commanded the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (1854).
Now 2 villages, Great Hampden, with 14th century Hampden House with parkland and a section of Iron Age Grim's Ditch earthwork, and Little Hampden.
The 12th century church has the grave of a prizefighter who died here in 1830 after an illegal 47-round bare-knuckle contest.
Some houses.
On a green; 17th century manor house.
Lost.
Stone-built.
Helsthorpe Farm.
Furniture manufacturing town; earthworks; Wycombe Abbey public school.
Remote; hilltop.
Near Maidenhead. Hitcham Park is the site of a manor house where Elizabeth I was entertained, 1602.
Remote; thatched cottages; Jacobean manor house.
Traces of an ancient moat near Hogshaw Farm.
Wooded.
Moated hall.
Disraeli lived at Hughenden Manor, 1847-81.
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Its large common is on a Chiltern ridge.
Thatched cottages; traces of an ancient earthwork nearby.
Half-timbered cottages.
Fine 17th and 18th century houses; Iron Age hill fort nearby.
Between the River Thame and Cuttle Brook.
19th century manor house.
Lavendon Castle.
Straggling; disused mill.
Church with an 11th century nave near the site of an old manor house.
On Roman Watling Street. Buckinghamshire Assizes were held here for 200 years until 1638.
Parkland, becoming a suburb of Milton Keynes.
Set round a green.
Unspoilt; church founded in Saxon times; Jacobean manor house.
Absorbed in Milton Keynes.
Thatched cottages. Medieval buildings; 14th century court house; 15th century manor house owned by Catherine de Valois (1401-37), queen of Henry V.
16th century manor house near a willow-shaded green.
Picturesque; old cottages; 16th century manor farm house; medieval Nether Winchendon House, formerly the manor house.
Lude Farm.
Scattered; 17th century houses round a green.
Buckingham suburb. The maids Moreton were sisters who founded the church in the 15th century.
Sprawling.
Roman building site nearby.
Iron Age fort called Bolbec's Castle.
19th century Mentmore Park was built by the Rothschild family.
Claydon House, where Florence Nightingale stayed with here sister, Lady Verney, is still the home of the Verney family.
Near Milton Keynes New Town.
Close to Princes Risborough.
Market town in the 13th century; 17th century manor house.
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