Chesham Bois One-Place Study

Chesham Bois is an ancient parish and, until the early 1900s, was mainly a rural area sandwiched between Chesham and Amersham. It grew massively in the 20th Century – primarily due to the way this part of South Buckinghamshire became part of “Metroland” with the growth of the London Underground system. Nowadays it is blends quite closely with Amersham-on-the-Hill which has also developed in a similar way in the same timescales.

Chesham Bois initially had the River Chess as its northern boundary and included some of the water-cress beds and a lot of the terraced housing built for the railway workers. However, in 1934 the area around The Moor and between the River Chess and the Railway was transferred to the Chesham Urban District Council. The Parish is now mainly residential housing.