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BEACONSFIELD

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 571 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEACONSFIELD , a See also:

town in the See also:Wycombe See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Buckinghamshire, See also:England, 23 M. W. by N. of See also:London, on the See also:main road to See also:Oxford, and on the See also:Great Central & Great Western See also:joint railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 1570. It lies in a hilly well-wooded district above the valley of the small See also:river Wye, a tributary of the See also:Thames. The broad Oxford road forms its picturesque main See also:street. It was formerly a posting station of importance, and had a considerable manufacture of See also:ribbons. The Perpendicular See also:church of St See also:Mary and All See also:Saints is the See also:burial See also:place of See also:Edmund See also:Burke (d. 1797), who lived at Gregories, or as he named it See also:Butler's See also:Court, near the town. He would have taken his See also:title from Beaconsfield had he survived to enter the See also:peerage. A See also:monument to his memory was erected in 1898. Edmund See also:Waller the poet owned the See also:property of See also:Hall See also:Barn, and died here in 1687. His See also:tomb is in the See also:churchyard.

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Benjamin Disraeli See also:chose the title of See also:earl of Beaconsfield in 1876, his wife having in 1868 received the title of Viscountess Beaconsfield. The opening of railway communication with London in 1906 resulted in a considerable See also:accretion of residential See also:population.

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