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Chesham Town Council Events

• A calendar of events in Chesham

Chesham objects in other collections

• Have you spotted an object associated with Chesham in another museum? If so, we would love to know about it. Chiltern Toys had a factory making wooden and other toys in Waterside, Chesham until the outbreak of WWII. This Chiltern Toys bear is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

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Maps of Chesham and the Surrounding Area

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Chesham street map

Street map of Chesham from Streetmap.co.uk.

Chesham on Google Maps

Satellite image, photo links and traffic information.

Chesham 1883

Ordnance Survey (OS) County Series 1:10,560 scale First Edition map on the Old Maps website (search for 'Chesham').

Burnham Hundred 1847

Map of the ancient hundred of Burnham, made in 1847. For a history of the Buckinghamshire Hundreds see the GENUKI website.

Other on-line maps

Buckinghamshire maps from 1610 to 1892 at Genmaps.

Eighteenth and nineteenth century Buckinghamshire maps can be found at: Your Maps Online

For maps of the Chilterns and surrounding area, including Chesham, from 1801 to 2001, and statistics visit A Vision of Britain Through Time.

Buckinghamshire Sites and Monuments Record and other archaeological and local history information plotted on a map of the area from Buckinghamshire County Council. Unlocking Buckinghamshire's Past.