Qualla: Buckinghamshire https://qualla.com/buckinghamshire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Buckinghamshire https://qualla.com/buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire: Introduction https://qualla.com/buckinghamshire/ A swan in chains. That is the flag of Buckinghamshire, and it carries five hundred years of strange custom: a white mute swan, wings folded, gold chain around its neck, on a banner divided red and black. The swan is bound to the monarch because all wild mute swans in Britain still legally belong to the Crown - a medieval law that has not been repealed. The Duke of Buckingham carried that swan into the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Today it flies above council offices in Aylesbury and town halls in Marlow, marking a county that has somehow stayed thoroughly itself even as London has grown forty-five miles east into a global megacity. The Chiltern Hills are the reason. Their gentle chalk ridge holds the southern third of the county like a wall against the city.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/q/buckinghamshire-wp/gcpq-buckinghamshire-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Buckinghamshire: The Chiltern Wall https://qualla.com/buckinghamshire/ The Chiltern Hills run diagonally across southern Buckinghamshire from south-west to north-east, an escarpment of chalk topped with beech woods that turn copper in October. The highest point, Haddington Hill in Wendover Woods, reaches just 267 metres - a Chiltern summit is a diff...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/q/buckinghamshire-wp/gcpq-buckinghamshire-the-chiltern-wall.mp3 0:06 2 full Buckinghamshire: Stoke Poges and the Elegy https://qualla.com/buckinghamshire/ In a small parish churchyard on the edge of the village of Stoke Poges, in the south of the county, Thomas Gray wrote the lines that became one of the most famous poems in the English language. 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' completed in 1750, made Gray instantly famous...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/q/buckinghamshire-wp/gcpq-buckinghamshire-stoke-poges-and-the-elegy.mp3 0:06 3 full Buckinghamshire: Roald Dahl's Hut https://qualla.com/buckinghamshire/ Great Missenden, a Chiltern village halfway between Amersham and Wendover, was Roald Dahl's home for the last thirty-six years of his life. He lived in a white-painted Georgian house called Gipsy House, and he wrote in a small brick garden hut about ten metres from the back door....

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/q/buckinghamshire-wp/gcpq-buckinghamshire-bletchley-park.mp3 0:06 5 full Buckinghamshire: Estates and the Rothschilds https://qualla.com/buckinghamshire/ The Rothschild banking family bought up much of the Vale of Aylesbury in the nineteenth century - so much of it that locals called the area 'Rothschildshire.' Waddesdon Manor, built between 1874 and 1889 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the style of a French chateau, sits on a...

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