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Gerrards Cross

A History

Julian Hunt, David Thorpe

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte

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Gerrards Cross, known for its open common and picturesque Latchmore Pond, had been a place of resort ever since the 1790s. Genteel houses sprang up, attracting enough wealthy visitors that it began to be known as the 'Brighton of Bucks.' The opening of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway in 1906, with a station at Gerrards Cross, gave hundreds of Londoners the opportunity to live in 'Beechy Bucks.' Gerrards Cross: A History celebrates the energy and imagination of the pioneer architects, builders and estate agents who ensured that Gerrards Cross became a high-class residential area, both socially and architecturally. It also applauds the entrepreneurs who opened their new shops and services when the commuter houses were still on the drawing board, and the brave newcomers who brought their families to live in the country, but depended utterly on their reliable train service to London.

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Stoke Poges, commuter town, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, Fulmer, Phillimore, Upton cum Chalvey, gerrards cross photographs, Bulstrode Park Camp, chiltern hills, local history, chilterns, chiltern main line, Chalfont St Peter