Chesham, Buckinghamshire - Local Information for home buyers

Chesham has a population of over 20,000 with many residential, businesses and industrial centres. It has a pedestrianised High Street featuring numerous specialist individual shops, and national retailers; and it also features a street market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a monthly ‘farmers market’. The Elgiva Theatre, Green-Flag Award winner Lowndes Park and the open-air heated swimming pool at the Moor Gym and Swim are just some the many public amenities available in the town.

Surrounded by the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Chesham is a great place to begin exploring the Chilterns countryside and is the starting point for many local walks.

The town has a tube station near the town centre, which is the last station on the spur off the Metropolitan Line, of the London Underground. This provides a reliable service into London and the Midlands.

The Broadway, with its War Memorial, is at the centre of town, from here a brick lined High Street runs North to the supermarkets and south to the Markey Square clock tower. There are a great mixture of shop fronts and facades with numerous yards, alleys and side streets with small independent shops and services.

Education

Primary education

There are six Primary Schools within Chesham with catchment areas based on post codes: - Elmtree First School, Newtown Infant School, Brushwood Junior School, Thomas Harding Junior School, Little Spring Primary School and Waterside Combined School.

Secondary education

At secondary level Buckinghamshire operates a system of selective education with pupils sitting the eleven plus exam to determine entry to either a Grammar School or Secondary Modern School. Two Secondary Schools are located in the town: - Chesham Park Community College, a co-educational secondary modern school and Chesham High School, a co-educational grammar school. Chesham also falls within the catchment areas of two further grammar schools, Dr Challoner's Grammar School for boys' in Amersham and Dr Challoner's High School for girls in Little Chalfont.

Independent schools

In the Chiltern and South Bucks area around Chesham and over the county boarder in Hertfordshire there are also a number of independent fee-paying schools providing education between ages 4-13 and up to age 18. Chesham Preparatory School is an Independent school which opened in 1938 in the town and shortly after relocated to the outskirts of Chesham, at Orchard Leigh providing fee-paying and scholarship supported education.

Special education provision

Chesham is the location of a nationally renowned Special school, Heritage House School and caters for pupils between the ages of 2 to 19 with severe learning difficulties.

Property Prices in Chesham (2008)

(Source Zoopla)