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The municipality is reachable by 1 of the network's lesser-known stations, tucked distant successful the apical near of the Tube representation successful Zone 9.
The presumption is the furthest distant from London connected the full network. (Image: Getty)
A beauteous marketplace municipality is reachable via the London Underground contempt being immoderate 25 miles from Charing Cross.
Chesham is 1 of the network's lesser-known stations tucked distant successful the apical near of the conduit representation successful Zone 9, and contempt being connected the "underground" network, ample stretches of the travel stay supra ground.
Passengers boarding astatine the presumption successful Buckinghamshire, hold astir 25 miles and almost an hr earlier seeing immoderate motion of going subterranean.
After leaving Chesham the archetypal passageway appears betwixt Finchley Road and Baker Street.
Chesham was antecedently portion of the Metropolitan Railway, the predecessor of the magenta Metropolitan Line.
The beauteous agrarian assemblage has astounding links to London. (Image: Getty)
The railway was the archetypal Underground of its kind, connecting North West London to the City and stretching into the countryside arsenic acold arsenic Verney Junction adjacent Milton Keynes, immoderate 46 miles from Central London, arsenic per MyLondon.
But it besides has a sizable offering of buying opportunities and restaurants, with highlights including Elgiva theatre and the century-old Chesham Moor Open Air Swimming Pool supplied by section outpouring water.
It's besides a large mode to spot the Chilterns Area of Outstanding National Beauty, which covers much than 300 quadrate miles of rolling chalk downlands, gorgeous riversides and woodlands crossed Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
But arsenic you'd expect from a beauteous colony with specified casual links to the capital, homes aren't cheap. Properties successful the municipality had an wide mean terms of £515,033 implicit the past year, according to online spot portal Rightmove.
Chesham (Image: Getty)
The bulk of income during the past twelvemonth were terraced properties, selling for £407,288 connected average. Meanwhile, detached properties sold for an mean terms of £770,974, and semi-detached properties went for £533,133.
Sold prices successful the past twelvemonth were up 8% connected the erstwhile year.
The municipality besides has a fig of outstanding schools, including Brushwood Junior School, successful Brushwood Road, which was inspected successful June this twelvemonth was rated Oustanding by Ofsted, uncovering that it offered pupils a "phenomenal education.
Chesham Grammar School and Chesnut Lane School are among others with the apical rating, though their past inspections took spot successful 2014.
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