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Amersham is widely known because of a multinational pharmaceutical company, Amersham plc (originally known as Amersham International, and acquired in 2004 by the American company General Electric), that took its name from the town. Records of Amersham date back to pre- Saxon times, when it was known as Agmodesham, and by the time that the Domesday book was written at around 1086 it became known as Elmodesham. The Domesday entry is as follows:
Queen Edith is the wife of Edward the Confessor and sister of king Harold, and after her death in 1075 the land passed to William the Conqueror who granted it to Geoffrey de Mandeville.
Amersham is linked to London by the Metropolitan LineThe Metropolitan Line is a line of the London Underground. Overview In its present-day form, the Metropolitan Line functions much like an overground suburban commuter railway: Baker Street station is its terminus, and as it reaches the outer suburbs of Lo of London UndergroundThe London Underground is a public transport network, composed of electrified railways (that is, a metro system) that run underground in tunnels in central London and above ground in the city's suburbs. The oldest metropolitan underground network in the w and is the last stationAmersham station is a London Underground station in Zone D on the Metropolitan line. It is the terminus of its branch of the line, and is not actually in Greater London; rather, it is in the county of Buckinghamshire. It is approximately 25 miles from the on its branch of this line. Much of this line is shared with the mainline railway service, which runs from MaryleboneMarylebone (sometimes written St. Marylebone or Mary-le-bone is an area in the City of Westminster north of Oxford Street and south of Regents Park. Edgware Road forms the western boundary. Portland Place and Langham Place form the eastern boundary. Maryl to AylesburyThis page is about Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. For other uses of the name see Aylesbury (disambiguation Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, in south central England, with a population in the 2001 census of 65,173. It is towards the.
Amersham is in two parts: Amersham on the Hill, which is close to the railway station, and Old Amersham, which contains St. Mary's, a delightful 13th century church, and several old inns.
Secondary schools in the town include Dr Challoner's Grammar SchoolDr Challoner's Grammar School is a Voluntary Controlled Grammar School of 1220 boys located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. It was founded in 1624 in accordance with the last will and testament of Dr Robert Chaloner (spelt with one ‘l’). Robert Cha (a grammar schoolA grammar school is a type of school found in some English-speaking countries. Its original intent was to educate the young in the grammar of one or two European languages. Grammar schools date back to earlier than the 16th century. In the British case, t as the name suggests) and the Amersham School (a secondary modern).