Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire | |||
Location Map ( geo) | |||
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Primary Destinations | |||
Amersham • Aylesbury • Beaconsfield • High Wycombe • Milton Keynes • Slough | |||
Other Important Destinations | |||
Buckingham • Chesham • Marlow • Princes Risborough • Wendover | |||
Current Highway Authorities | |||
Buckinghamshire • Milton Keynes • Slough • Windsor and Maidenhead | |||
Borders | |||
Bedfordshire • Berkshire • Hertfordshire • Middlesex • Northamptonshire • Oxfordshire • Surrey | |||
National Highways Roads | |||
M1 • M4 • M25 • M40 • A5 • A40 • A404 | |||
Buckinghamshire is a traditional county in the Home Counties. It contains the large towns of Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Milton Keynes and Slough as well as the smaller Amersham, Beaconsfield, Buckingham, Chesham, Marlow, Princes Risborough and Wendover. Although the county is named after Buckingham, the county council has always been based in Aylesbury.
Geography & Economy
The county is largely rural, with the majority of the population living in the New Town of Milton Keynes or the London commuter belt in the south; the county contains the Prime Minister's country seat of Chequers. The southern border of the county is on the River Thames, after which it heads north across the Chilterns to the Vale of Aylesbury and the valley of the Great Ouse. The WWII codebreaking site of Bletchley Park lies in the north of the county, whilst other grand houses include Cliveden, home of the Astors, and Waddesdon, home of the Rothschilds.
The Chilterns area was traditionally more industrial: furniture, paper, boots, brushes, lace, linen and, of course, chalk dug from pits. Aylesbury Vale was traditionally more pastoral, with cows being grazed. As such, it is a county of two halves - one chalk, the other cheese. This continues to this day, with the south of the county being economically linked to the capital and the Thames Valley, and the north of the county (especially Milton Keynes) being integrated into the emerging 'South Midlands'/'Varsity Arc' economy.
Roads
Due to its proximity to London and shape, the county is in 3 numbering 'zones' for A and B roads (3, 4 and 5), and several other major routes out of London pass through the county such as the M1, M4, M40 and A41.
Most non-trunk roads within the traditional county are maintained by Buckinghamshire County Council and the Unitary Authorities of Slough in the south and Milton Keynes in the north, though a small number of roads in the south are maintained by Windsor & Maidenhead.
Route | From | To | Length | |
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M1 | Staples Corner, Middlesex | Hook Moor, Yorkshire | 200 miles | View |
M4 | Chiswick, Middlesex | Pont Abraham, Carmarthenshire | 191.9 miles | View |
M25 | Fleet Downs, near Dartford | Thurrock | 117 miles | View |
M40 | Denham, Buckinghamshire | Umberslade, Warwickshire | 89 miles | View |
Ringway 3 | Bushey, Hertfordshire | Bushey, Hertfordshire | 103 miles | View |
Ringway 4 | Chevening | Navestock | 126 miles | View |
A4(M) | Huntercombe | Maidenhead Thicket | 6 miles | View |
A40(M) | Denham | Stokenchurch | 13 miles | View |
A41(M) | Bucklandwharf | Tring | 2 miles | View |
A4 | London | Avonmouth | 129.8 miles | View |
A5 | London | Holyhead | 252 miles | View |
A32 | Alton | Gosport | 29.1 miles | View |
A40 | London | Fishguard | 263 miles | View |
A41 | London | Birkenhead | 204 miles | View |
A331 | Windsor | Ditton Park | 3.4 miles | View |
A332 | Bagshot | Slough | 12.5 miles | View |
A355 | Eton | Amersham | 13.0 miles | View |
A404 | Marylebone, London | Maidenhead | 43.5 miles | View |
A412 | Slough | Garston, Watford | 18.9 miles | View |
A413 | Tatling End | Silverstone | 52.2 miles | View |
A416 | Amersham | Berkhamsted | 8.1 miles | View |
A418 | Wheatley | Linslade | 25.3 miles | View |
A421 | Barleymow Roundabout, Brackley | Black Cat Roundabout, Roxton | 44.4 miles | View |
A422 | Spetchley, Worcester | Bromham | 84.5 miles | View |
A428 | Coventry | Cambridge | 79.3 miles | View |
A506 | Hockliffe | Northampton | 27 miles | View |
A509 | Milton Keynes | Kettering | 30.6 miles | View |
A3063 | Old Windsor | Datchet | 1.4 miles | View |
A4007 | Iver Heath | Uxbridge | 2.3 miles | View |
A4010 | High Wycombe | Stoke Mandeville | 15.1 miles | View |
A4011 | Wendover | Aston Clinton | 2.9 miles | View |
A4013 | Oxford Road | Walton Street | 0.4 miles | View |
A4020 | Shepherd's Bush | Denham | 13.7 miles | View |
A4090 | Amersham Common | Amersham-on-the-Hill | 0.9 miles | View |
A4094 | Maidenhead | Loudwater | 6.9 miles | View |
A4128 | Great Missenden | High Wycombe | 7.0 miles | View |
A4129 | Princes Risborough | Thame | 7.3 miles | View |
A4146 | Hemel Hempstead | Milton Keynes | 16.7 miles | View |
A4154 | Amersham Common | Amersham-on-the-Hill | 0.9 miles | View |
A4155 | Southcote, Reading | Bourne End | 20.7 miles | View |
A4156 | Friarage Road | Buckingham Road | 0.25 miles | View |
A4157 | Aylesbury (W) | Aylesbury (E) | 2.1 miles | View |
A4160 | Aston Clinton | Dunstable | 11.3 miles | View |
A4421 | Bicester (SE) | Finmere | 8.5 miles | View |
A5130 | Woburn | Kingston, Milton Keynes | 4.0 miles | View |
B376 | Upton, Slough | Walton Bridge Road, Shepperton | 12.8 miles | View |
B416 | Chalfont St Peter | Slough | 8.8 miles | View |
B440 | Hemel Hempstead | Leighton Buzzard | 12.4 miles | View |
B470 | Cowley | Windsor | 8.0 miles | View |
B471 | Iver Heath | Denham | 2.7 miles | View |
B472 | Beaconsfield | Amersham | 4.6 miles | View |
B472 | Slough | Chalfont St Peter | 7.2 miles | View |
B473 | Slough | Amersham | 11.3 miles | View |
B474 | Beaconsfield | Hazlemere | 5.3 miles | View |
B474 | Stoke Poges | Farnham Royal | 1.6 miles | View |
B475 | Slough High Street | Slough Station | 0.2 miles | View |
B476 | Taplow | Wooburn | 4.4 miles | View |
B480 | Lower Assendon | Oxford | 21.9 miles | View |
B482 | Marlow | Stokenchurch | 8.4 miles | View |
B483 | High Wycombe | Great Missenden | 6.1 miles | View |
B484 | High Wycombe station | Wycombe Abbey | 0.2 miles | View |
B485 | Great Missenden | Chesham | 4.0 miles | View |
B486 | Boxmoor | Leighton Buzzard | 15.6 miles | View |
B488 | Tring | Linslade | 9.9 miles | View |
B489 | Buckland | Dunstable | 10.6 miles | View |
B526 | Newport Pagnell | Northampton | 14.8 miles | View |
B557 | Fenny Stratford | Bedford | 15.9 miles | View |
B558 | Station Road | Apsley Hill | 0.5 miles | View |
B565 | Olney | Cold Brayfield | 2.4 miles | View |
B3021 | Old Windsor | Datchet | 3.0 miles | View |
B3022 | Newell Green | Slough (S) | 9.4 miles | View |
B3023 | Horton Road | Majors Farm Road | 0.4 miles | View |
B3026 | Datchet | Burnham, Slough | 5.5 miles | View |
B3027 | Bath Road | Windsor Road | 0.8 miles | View |
B3378 | Longford | Colnbrook | 2.7 miles | View |
B4009 | Newbury | Tring(W) | 46.5 miles | View |
B4010 | Little Kimble | Wendover | 2.9 miles | View |
B4011 | near Blackthorn | Thame | 11.7 miles | View |
B4032 | Linslade | Winslow | 9.6 miles | View |
B4033 | Winslow | Great Horwood (N) | 2.7 miles | View |
B4034 | Standing Way, Bletchley | Monks Way, Milton Keynes | 4.5 miles | View |
B4440 | Holtspur | Wooburn Green | 1.1 miles | View |
B4441 | Sycamore Corner | Oakfield Corner | 0.17 miles | View |
B4442 | Chalfont St Giles | Little Chalfont | 2.7 miles | View |
B4443 | Aylesbury | Stoke Mandeville | 2.0 miles | View |
B4444 | Longwick | Princes Risborough | 1.8 miles | View |
B4505 | Chesham | Boxmoor | 6.5 miles | View |
B4506 | Northchurch | Whipsnade | 7.3 miles | View |
B4544 | Stoke Mandeville | Aston Clinton | 2.2 miles | View |
B4635 | Bucklandwharf | Tring(SE) | 2.0 miles | View |
B5388 | Yardley Hastings | Olney | 3.1 miles | View |
T9 | London | Bristol | View | |
T10 | London | Fishguard | View | |
T11 | London | Holyhead | View | |
T35 | London | Birmingham | View |
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Bridges, Tunnels, and other Crossings