I grew up in Beaconsfield. It’s only about 25 miles from the center of London but it’s surrounded by fields and woodlands due to the Green Belt.

I live in Princes Risborough!! I hadn’t expected to see it featured but I guess it’s always easy to overlook the place one lives in. Great video, thanks.

@AlexinGreatBritain

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! And yeah I think it's quite common for us to feel a bit more on the glass-half-empty side about our own area.

BEAUTIFULLY written and edited🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@AlexinGreatBritain

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Wow, this county is beautiful: There are so many nice timber-framed houses! It's really worth visiting!

Terrific as usual Alex. Adore your series of various top 10.

On my manor now, excellent review of the towns, Thankyou, Sadly, Aylesbury and wycombe were mostly destroyed in the 60,s.

I really enjoyed this video. It was lovely to see a little of Newport Pagnell - I have just discovered a family link to the area. Bucking Hampshire looks like a beautiful county. Also - appreciated your Winslow - Eagles comment!😀 Thanks for sharing your great work! 🇦🇺

@AlexinGreatBritain

2 ай бұрын

No problem, thanks for the kind words!

Great video Alex, Princes Risborough is my local town, so nice to see it featured. Can't argue with the list either, although I'd consider Chesham as just sneaking on and may not have place Marlow quite so highly.

Excellent video as always. Just one thing to mention, I don’t think Beeching should be singled out for the closing of Railways in past decades, he just wrote up the report, Ernest Marples is the man who signed off the closures and what a surprise he had some large investments in motorway building. Keep up the great work.

@AlexinGreatBritain

5 ай бұрын

I agree, there were multiple bad actors who let it happen. Also, the fact that so few stations have been reopened since is another scandal all in itself. But Beeching is the obvious target for blame after all.

It’s been interesting to hear your thoughts on Beds and Bucks, as I’ve lived there. Have you completed Herts yet? I did have a short spell in W.Mids which obviously had some very interesting Black Country history, but I have been very fortunate to have lived over 30 years in S. Devon. Please let me have your list as it stands, and update me as you finish them off.

@AlexinGreatBritain

6 күн бұрын

Yeah, I've done Herts. Here's the link to the playlist of all the counties I've covered so far: kzread.info/head/PLiddFve-_f9D4rak2082TAtqx_w94SEvk

I lived and worked in Amersham from 1970 to 1978. The description 'old' is unofficial. The cricket ground at Shardloes is one of the pretties in England. The train station is at Amersham-on-the-hill, which can be reached via the churchyard and Ruckles Feiild, a path through a wood. Ruth Ellis was laid to rest in the churchyard, the last woman to be hanged for murder in 1955

The singer Morrissey once lost his bag in Newport Pagnall, allegedly! 😅

Thanks!

@AlexinGreatBritain

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Dianne, always appreciated! :)

I love Newport pagnell I grew up there as my Nan has always lived in and around Newport Pagnell.

cracks me up that Chesham gets a tube line, but i don't - in sodding BECKENHAM 😆

@AlexinGreatBritain

4 ай бұрын

At least you get a tram line though. It's not everyone who can say that!

Just a reminder that the words of 'Amazing Grace' speak of Newton's conversion to Jesus Christ , of which the desired abolition of skavery was a consequence....and not the reason for this wonderful and timeless song , and the message which it so beautifully puts across to and for us today 🙏🙏

I'm looking to move to Buckinghamshire to study an MA course at NFTS in Beaconsfield. The university recommends High Wycome for affordable rent however I want to expand my options (mainly because I want to avoid living in a five-bedroom houseshare which might be dominated by first year BA students). Does anyone know a town in the area which would best accomodate a focused MA student on a budget? I appreciate nice scenery, local businesses and would need good transport links to Beaconsfield.

@ZarrarOneNiner

19 күн бұрын

Aylesbury and Amersham are decent and fit your criteria of good transport, local businesses and scenery, but are more expensive than Wycombe.

Loved it… Olney is wonderful. However, one quibble…you can’t call Milton Keynes ‘Americanesque’! Quite the opposite! I know it’s modern, but try walking or cycling around an American city…it’s impossible (safely). Besides Americans hate roundabouts, and they don’t have the copious amount of green space that we have. Get away from the boulevards. Apart from Newport Parnell, you could explore some old villages that are now smuggled into the larger Milton Keynes.