(previously '''Agmondesham''') is a
Market Town 27 miles north west of
London , in the
Chiltern Hills ,
England . It is part of the
London Commuter Belt .
Amersham is widely known because of a multinational
Pharmaceutical company,
Amersham Plc (originally known as Amersham International, and acquired in 2004 by the American company
General Electric ), that took its name from the town.
Amersham is in two parts: Amersham on the Hill, which is close to the
Railway Station , and Old Amersham, which contains St. Mary's, a
13th Century church, and several old inns.
Records of Amersham date back to pre-
Saxon times, when it was known as Agmodesham, and by the time that the
Domesday Book was written at around
1086 it became known as Elmodesham. The Domesday entry is as follows:
:Geoffrey de Mandeville holds Amersham. It answers for 7 1/2 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 sister of king
Harold , and after her death in
1075 the land passed to
William The Conqueror who granted it to
Geoffrey De Mandeville .
Amersham is linked to
London by the
Metropolitan Line of
London Underground and is the last
Station on its branch of this line. Much of this line is shared with the mainline railway service, which runs from
Marylebone to
Aylesbury .
Amersham sent two
MP s to the
Unreformed House Of Commons , and was considered a
Rotten Borough until the
Reform Act 1832 stripped it of its representation.
Primary Schools in the town include Chestnut Lane Primary, Elangeni School, Chesham Bois Church of England School, St. Mary's Church of England School, St. George's Church of England School and Woodside Junior School.
Secondary schools in the town include
Dr Challoner's Grammar School (a
Grammar School , as the name suggests) and the
Amersham School .
Amersham & Wycombe College is the only
Further Education esablishment in Amersham.
Amersham is located at (51.6667,
-0.6333)
1 .
