Buckinghamshire
The County
Not sure how to begin your Buckinghamshire property search? Our boutique buying agents are here to help. As our property search company will tell you, home county Buckinghamshire is popular with London commuters: our real estate buyers agent can help you explore long-standing property search favourites Amersham, Chesham, the Chalfonts, and High Wycombe. The Metropolitan Green Belt restricts regional development – our real estate buyers agent has more information.
Milton Keynes is the largest town; buyers agents often estimate around 230,000 inhabitants. Or our Recoco buying agent can introduce Aylesbury, Marlow, and Princes Risborough, larger towns; independent buying agents can also confirm the county’s larger towns are the most ethnically diverse. Our property buying agent can also present less populated areas near former county town Buckingham.
Buckinghamshire is generally affluent; our property buying agent can confirm market town Beaconsfield has some of the highest property prices outside central London. Our property search company can also attest the county has the highest GDP per capital outside the capital, the best education results, highest life expectancy in the country, and the best quality of life.
History
“Buckinghamshire” means district (“scire”) of Anglo-Saxon landowner Bucca. Ask your property buying agent about the county’s Brythonic or Roman history. Alternatively, get our Recoco buying agent to outline Mercia’s influence in the 6th to 10th centuries or Henry VIII’s 16th century attentions. In the 17th century, John Hampden apparently started the English Civil War here.
Buckinghamshire later suffered famine and cholera; our Recoco property finder can present evidence of country dwellers moving to larger towns for work, leaving the countryside as a kind of rural escape.
Transport
Transport links important? Ask buyers agents: motorways include the M40, M1, M25 (one junction, the J16-M40 interchange), and the M4 (junction 7 only). Independent buying agents may also highlight the A5 to Milton Keynes, A4 to Taplow, A40 (parallel with the M40), A41 for Aylesbury, and A421 for Buckingham, Milton Keynes, and the M1 link. Other A roads are the A404, A509, A4010, and A4146; north and south county areas are linked only by the A418 and A413. Your Recoco buying agent can help you identify the best fit as a property buyer.
Our boutique buying agents can also help you as a property buyer find accommodation near rail networks; Milton Keynes has particularly good links. Check with our Recoco property finder on Euston, Marylebone and Paddington routes. Other services run to Birmingham New Street, East Croydon, North West England, North Wales, and the Scottish Central Belt.
Education
Need to explore Buckinghamshire education options? Your property search company may mention pupils taking the Eleven-Plus examination can transfer to free, grammar, or secondary modern schools, depending on preferences and performance (free schools or secondary moderns only without Eleven-Plus).
Our real estate buyers agent can also describe nine independent schools and over thirty maintained state secondary schools. Boutique buying agents can also confirm that Milton Keynes controls its own schools.
For a property buyer curious about tertiary education, our Recoco property finder may mention the University of Buckingham or Buckinghamshire New University. The Open University is in Milton Keynes; independent buying agents may highlight the National Film and Television School.
Leisure and Events
Sports fan? For speedway head to Silverstone, or Dorney Lake for rowing and running routes. Buyers agents can also tell you about the county’s Stadium MK to the north, and Adams Park to the south.
Buckinghamshire is popular with walkers and cyclists, particularly the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the south. HS2 is having an effect; local beauty spots include Wendover Woods, Coombe Hill, and several nature reserves in flooded former quarries.
Need a property search breather? Visit Bletchley Park for a little codebreaking history, or the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, National Museum of Computing, Clivedon, or West Wycombe Park.
Celebrity Connections
Buckinghamshire’s literary connections include Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley; Jerome K. Jerome, T.S. Eliot, Enid Blyton, and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Other famous names James Corden, ‘Pub Landlord” Al Murray, Michael York, Cilla Black, Fern Britton, Tess Daly, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, and Sir David Jason.
Famous politicians include Nancy Astor and Benjamin Disraeli; the incumbent Prime Minister’s country residence is Chequers.
Foodies’ Corner
Regional specialties include Grenadier apples and Oxford blue cheese. Recent emphasis has been very much on sustainability. The county is packed with charming inns and intimate restaurants serving local fare with a modern twist.
Fun Fact
Buckinghamshire is home to Colossus, the first electronic digital computer in the world capable of being programmed.