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Beaconsfield
Parish church in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng.
Beaconsfield
England, United Kingdom
Beaconsfield, town (parish), South Bucks district, administrative and historic county of Buckinghamshire, southeastern England. It is situated in the Chiltern Hills, just northwest of the Greater London conurbation.
The wide main street of the old town of Beaconsfield, bordered by 18th-century houses, contrasts with the modern town, in which commuters to central London—28 miles (39 km) to the southeast—reside. Beaconsfield was adopted by Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th-century British prime minister, for his earl’s title and was also the home of Edmund Burke, the 18th-century statesman, who is buried in the parish church. Pop. (2001) 10,679; (2011) 12,081.
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