12 Facts About Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England,.

Beaconsfield was named 'Britain's richest town' by The Daily Telegraph in 2008.

Beaconsfield is recorded in property returns of 1185 where it is spelt Bekenesfeld, literally beechen field which would less archaically be read as clearing in the beeches.

Although, it is often incorrectly contested that Beaconsfield derived its name from a street called Beacon Hill in neighbouring village, Penn, which was a lookout point and beacon originating in Saxon times.

Parish church at the crossroads of Old Beaconsfield is dedicated to St Mary, it was rebuilt of flint and bath stone by the Victorians in 1869.

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Old Beaconsfield has a number of old coaching inns along a wide street of red brick houses and small shops.

Beaconsfield is the home of Bekonscot model village, which was the first model village in the world; and Beaconsfield Film Studios becoming the National Film and Television School, where many film directors and technicians have learned their craft.

Old Beaconsfield which grew up on the Oxford Road in part to serve the coach traffic, is mirrored by New Beaconsfield which has grown up round the station.

Parish of Beaconsfield is within the parliamentary constituency of Beaconsfield towards the south.

Beaconsfield's defeated fellow Conservative, Dominic Grieve QC, in the 2019 general election.

Liam Fox was a GP in Beaconsfield before being elected to Parliament, though he represented a seat in Somerset.

Parish of Beaconsfield was made a local board district in 1850, which became Beaconsfield Urban District in 1894.