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Chalfont St Peter, the Glossary

Chalfont St Peter is a large village and civil parish in southeastern Buckinghamshire, England.^[1]

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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Alan Nunn May

Alan Nunn May (sometimes Allan) (2 May 1911 – 12 January 2003) was a British physicist and a confessed and convicted Soviet spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic research to the Soviet Union during World War II.

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Amersham

Amersham is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, south-east of Aylesbury and north-east of High Wycombe. Chalfont St Peter and Amersham are civil parishes in Buckinghamshire.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Arqiva

Arqiva is a British telecommunications company which provides infrastructure, broadcast transmission and smart meter facilities in the United Kingdom.

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Aubrey–Maturin series

The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.

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Bekonscot

Bekonscot Model Village and Railway is a model village built in the 1920s in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK at a scale of one inch to one foot.

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Ben Gill

Benjamin David Gill (born 4 October 1987) is an English footballer.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Birmingham Snow Hill railway station

Birmingham Snow Hill, also known as Snow Hill station, is a railway station in Birmingham City Centre.

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Bradt Travel Guides

Bradt Travel Guides is a publisher of travel guides founded in 1974 by Hilary Bradt and her husband George, who co-wrote the first Bradt Guide on a river barge on a tributary of the Amazon.

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British Forces Broadcasting Service

The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for His Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide.

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Brudenell

Brudenell is a community in the township of Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Buckinghamshire Council

Buckinghamshire Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Buckinghamshire in England.

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Cambridge United F.C.

Cambridge United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Cambridge, England.

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Chalfont Common

Chalfont Common is a hamlet in the parish of Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Chalfont St Giles

Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish in southeast Buckinghamshire, England. Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St Giles are civil parishes in Buckinghamshire and villages in Buckinghamshire.

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Chalfont St Peter A.F.C.

Chalfont St Peter Association Football Club is a football club based in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Chalfonts Community College is a co-educational secondary school in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charing Cross

Charing Cross is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet.

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Charles Churchill (of Chalfont)

Charles Churchill (ca. 1720–1812) was a British Member of Parliament.

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Chesham and Amersham (UK Parliament constituency)

Chesham and Amersham is a parliamentary constituency in Buckinghamshire, South East England, represented in the House of Commons by Sarah Green, a Liberal Democrat elected at a 2021 by-election.

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Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills or the Chilterns are a chalk escarpment in southern England, northwest of London, covering across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire, stretching from Goring-on-Thames in the southwest to Hitchin in the northeast.

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Chiltern Main Line

The Chiltern Main Line is a railway line which links London and Birmingham (Moor Street and Snow Hill) on a route via High Wycombe, Bicester, Banbury, Leamington Spa and Solihull in England.

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Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chiltern Open Air Museum (COAM) is an independent open-air museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Cliveden

Cliveden (pronounced) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire.

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Colne Valley Regional Park

The Colne Valley Regional Park is of parks, green spaces and reservoirs alongside the often multi-channel River Colne and parallel Grand Union Canal, mainly in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, with parts in the London Borough of Hillingdon, Berkshire and a small area in Surrey.

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Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War.

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Deanery

A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway.

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Dorney Court

Dorney Court is a Grade I listed early Tudor manor house, dating from around 1440, located in the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Earl of Cardigan

Earl of Cardigan is a title in the Peerage of England, currently held by the Marquesses of Ailesbury, and used as a courtesy title by the heir apparent to that Marquessate, currently Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan, son of the 9th Marquess.

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Earl of Portland

Earl of Portland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England, firstly in 1633 and secondly in 1689.

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Elstree Studios

Elstree Studios is a generic term which can refer to several current and demolished British film studios and television studios based in or around the town of Borehamwood and village of Elstree in Hertfordshire, England.

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Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures.

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Epilepsy Society

The Epilepsy Society (formerly known as the National Society for Epilepsy) is the largest medical charity in the field of epilepsy in the United Kingdom, providing services for people with epilepsy for over 100 years.

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Film studio

A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company that makes films.

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Georgian era

The Georgian era was a period in British history from 1714 to, named after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.

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Gerrards Cross

Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north bordering villages of Fulmer, Hedgerley, Iver Heath and Stoke Poges. Chalfont St Peter and Gerrards Cross are civil parishes in Buckinghamshire.

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Gerrards Cross railway station

Gerrards Cross railway station is a railway station in the town of Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Henry Gott

Sir Henry Thomas Gott (1731 – 14 November 1809), born Henry Thomas Greening was the son of Thomas Greening (died February 1757), gardener to King George II.

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High Wycombe

High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe, is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Hilary Bradt

Hilary Bradt MBE (born 17 July 1941) is the founder of Bradt Travel Guides, a publisher which became an increasingly visible presence in the travel guide book world starting in the mid-1970s.

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Hughenden Manor

Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.

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John Laurie

John Paton Laurie (25 March 1897 – 23 June 1980) was a Scottish stage, film, and television actor.

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Len Worley

Leonard Francis Worley (born 26 June 1937) is a former amateur footballer who played for Wycombe Wanderers, Charlton Athletic, Tottenham Hotspur, Chesham United, Wealdstone, Slough Town, Hayes and represented England at amateur level on seven occasions.

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Lewis Collins

Lewis Collins (27 May 1946 – 27 November 2013)"Happy Birthday Richard Hastilow, 65", The Times, 26 May 2010 was an English actor, best known for his career-defining role playing 'Bodie' in the late 1970s – early 1980s British television series The Professionals.

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List of Derren Brown shows

The various stage and television shows performed by the psychological illusionist Derren Brown.

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Little Chalfont

Little Chalfont is a village and civil parish in south-east Buckinghamshire, England. Chalfont St Peter and Little Chalfont are civil parishes in Buckinghamshire and villages in Buckinghamshire.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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M1 motorway

The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.

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M25 motorway

The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a major road encircling most of Greater London.

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M4 motorway

The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales.

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M40 motorway

The M40 motorway links London, Oxford, and Birmingham in England, a distance of approximately.

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Magna Britannia

Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain was a topographical and historical survey published by the antiquarians Daniel Lysons and his brother Samuel Lysons in several volumes between 1806 and 1822.

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Manorialism

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages.

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Margaret Rutherford

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English actress of stage, film and television.

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Marylebone station

Marylebone station is a Central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the Marylebone area of the City of Westminster.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England.

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Milton's Cottage

Milton's Cottage is a timber-framed 16th-century building in the Buckinghamshire village of Chalfont St Giles.

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Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories.

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Missenden Abbey

Missenden Abbey is a former Arrouasian (Augustinian) monastery, founded in 1133 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English musician and media personality.

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Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

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Pinewood Studios

Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in the village of Iver Heath, England.

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Private Frazer

Private James Frazer is a fictional Home Guard platoon member and undertaker, first portrayed by John Laurie in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Rickmansworth

Rickmansworth is a town in south-west Hertfordshire, England, located approximately north-west of central London, south-west of Watford and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway.

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River Misbourne

The River Misbourne rises in a field on the outskirts of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, passing through Little Missenden, Old Amersham, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter and under the Chiltern railway line and the M25 motorway to its confluence with the River Colne just north of where the Colne is crossed by Western Avenue, the A40 road.

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Robert Drury (died 1577)

Sir Robert Drury (c. 1503 – 21 May 1577) of Hedgerley and Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, was the second son of Sir Robert Drury, Speaker of the House of Commons, and was the father of Sir Robert Drury (1525–1593), Sir William Drury, and Sir Drue Drury.

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RWS Group

RWS Group, known commercially as RWS, is a British company that provides intellectual property translation, filing and search services, technical and commercial translation and localization, and develops and supports translation productivity and management software.

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Thalissa Teixeira

Thalissa Teixeira (born 1992/1993) is a British-Brazilian actress and filmmaker.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The National Lottery Draws

The National Lottery Results (previously The National Lottery Live, The National Lottery Draw, The National Lottery Stars and The National Lottery Draws) is the television programme that broadcasts the drawing of the National Lottery in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalfont_St_Peter

Also known as Austenwood, Chalfont Saint Peter, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, Chalfont St Peters, Chalfont St. Peter, Layter's Green, Layters Green.

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