Little Chalfont
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Little Chalfont is a village in south east Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. It is situated in a small group of villages called The Chalfonts which also consists of Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St Peter. The villages are sandwiched between High Wycombe and Rickmansworth.
Little Chalfont is a 20th century creation triggered by the coming of the Metropolitan Line railway. A station called Chalfont Road was opened in 1889 at the northernmost point of Chalfont St Giles Parish where the parishes of Amersham, Chenies, and Chalfont St Giles met. At that time the area was remote from the centres of the villages and towns and consisted of isolated farms and cottages and did not have a specific name.
The coming of the railway eventually brought local housing development and a community developed around the station, which was renamed to Chalfont and Latimer in 1915, a name which it retains today.
The first appearance of the name Little Chalfont is in the minutes of the Chalfont St Giles Parish Council on 15 Jan 1925 when, at the request of the inhabitants, it was agreed that the group of houses near the station should be named Little Chalfont instead of "Chalfont Road Village".
A series of Parish boundary changes from then until now have gradually transferred the continually expanding housing development at Little Chalfont from Chalfont St Giles and Chenies parishes to bring it all within the Amersham Town Council area. There is currently, (July 2005), a formal proposal to create a new Civil Parish of Little Chalfont which will take even more out of Chalfont St Giles.
Chalfont & Latimer station in Little Chalfont provides rail access to Central London via the Metropolitan Line and the Chiltern Line.
There are three schools in Little Chalfont. 2 primary schools, Little Chalfont Primary School and Bell Lane Primary School, and Dr Challoner's High School: a girls' grammar school.
[edit] Reference
"A History of Little Chalfont" Ivor White 1993 published by The Little Chalfont Rural Preservation Society (now the Little Chalfont Village Society), Bucks, England. See external link below for more details.
[edit] External links
- Village website
- Little Chalfont Library : Closure of libraries and their replacement by "alternative" library services
- BBC National Campaign to save Little Chalfont Library
- BBC article about Little Chalfont Library
