Parish in Buckinghamshire, England
| Coordinates: | 51.63, -0.574 |
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| OS grid ref: | SU 98 93 |
| Population: | 7,957 |
Chalfont St. Giles is a historic village in Buckinghamshire, set on the edge of the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and roughly 18 miles north‑west of London. The village sits along the chalk stream of the River Misbourne, with a traditional green, commons and a network of footpaths that give it a distinctly rural feel despite its proximity to the capital.
Locally the village is best known for Milton's Cottage, the only surviving home of John Milton where he lived during the Great Plague and worked on Paradise Lost, and for a cluster of Georgian and older buildings, pubs and village amenities. Today it functions largely as an affluent commuter community with good rail links via Chalfont & Latimer, while retaining active local groups, conservation areas and a sense of village life.
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