Английская Википедия:Beacon Hill, Buckinghamshire
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Coord The hamlet of Beacon Hill, is situated off the B474 near Penn and on the outskirts of High Wycombe Buckinghamshire.[1][2] Nearby is the Golf Course at Wycombe Heights.
Hill
Beacon Hill is named after a nearby hill in the Ivinghoe Hills range and shares the same name. It was surveyed at the order of the Duke of Bridgewater and was discovered to be Шаблон:Convert high.[3] The hill has a Bronze Age bowl barrow at the top and used to have a beacon on the top of it, with the iron lighter for it being stored in the nearby Church of England Church of St Peter and St Paul, Ellesborough.[3] The beacon was replaced in the 19th century with a flagpole, which was then exchanged for a gun emplacement during the Second World War.[4] It is a part of a National Trust trail which gives walkers views of Chequers, the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[5]
Beacon Hill is also the location of Cymbeline's Castle where the Celtic King of the Britons Cunobeline according to legend, made a last stand against the Roman conquest of Britain in a fort located on the hill.[6] However, Historic England has claimed this legend was a Victorian invention and that the castle was actually a Norman style Motte-and-bailey castle.[7]
Hamlet
The hamlet featured a Baptist chapel constructed at the highest point of it. The main road running through Beacon Hill is the boundary between the parishes of Penn and Tylers Green.[8]
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