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Pictorial Tour of Amersham
Gore Hill / Bury Farm

Just to the side of Gore Hill is Bury Farm.

Dating from the 1660's Bury Farm was the Quaker home of Isaac and Mary Pennington and it was here William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, came courting his future wife, Gulielma Springett, Mary's daughter.

Also, the cottages on Bury Farm were where the Lollards held their meetings in the time of religious dissent in Amersham which led to 6 martyrs being burnt at the stake in 1521.

Bury farm, now converted into housing.

Gore Hill. Many believe the hill is named after a battle against the Danes which was alleged to be so fierce that blood ran down the hill. However, in his book "A History of Amersham" Jullian Hunt points out that in the 1600s there was an enclosure called Gore Hill, a gore being an ancient word for an awkward corner of a field, so this is probably where the name of the hill comes from. The round-about is where the by pass crosses the hill. Some of the houses on the outskirts of Amersham were "cut off" when the by pass was built, a foot bridge crosses the by pass to connect to the houses.

Looking across Bury Farm with Tesco in the background

Tesco, 24 hour superstore. Built on the site of the old bus garage and Boyers / Brazil's meat factory. Foxes was also knocked down and rebuilt (right of picture). Tesco is very popular and draws people from miles around. there is an argument that Tesco and similar stores are causing traditional High Street shops to suffer as they sell everything from food to clothes.

Beyond Tesco and across Station Road are the Chequers pub and what is now Ambers. The Chequers housed the cell where the Martyrs were held before being bunt at the stake. Ambers (a ladies fashion outlet which moved down to the Old Town from Amersham-on-the-Hill is housed in the former Bury Mill, a former corn mill. Bury Mill is one of Amersham's oldest mills. When Station Road was built, the performance of the mill was decreased owing to the alteration to the flow of the river Misbourne. In the 1930s it was converted into the Millstream Cafe.

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