Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

In 1200 Geoffrey, Earl of Essex obtained a charter for Amersham allowing him to hold a Friday market and a fair on 7 and 8 September.

The area of the town now known as Amersham on the Hill was referred to as Amersham Common until after the arrival of the Metropolitan Line in 1892.

Amersham is represented by two members elected for the Amersham division on Buckinghamshire County Council.

Old Amersham is situated on the valley floor of the River Misbourne.

Amersham on the Hill is built on the north side of the Misbourne valley, on a small plateau that forms the watershed between the Misbourne and the neighbouring River Chess.

Amersham is linked to London by the Metropolitan Line of London Underground and is the last station on the Metropolitan main line.

The station was built a mile to the north of the old market town and has provided the focus of Amersham on the Hill ever since.

A campaign of opposition to the impact on the town and the surrounding area of the preferred route is being locally co-ordinated by a protest group, Amersham Action Group, which along with other protest groups is part of the HS2 Action Alliance.

Amersham School opened on its current site in 1964 as the Brudenell County Secondary School for girls.

play football at Spratley's Meadow in Old Amersham, while various football teams use council facilities at Hervines Park ( Amersham on the Hill ) and Barn Meadow ( Old Amersham ).

Amersham and Chiltern Rugby Football Club play rugby union at Weedon Lane in Amersham on the Hill.

Works outside of Westminster Abbey are memorials to the 1st and 2nd dukes of Ancaster at Edenham, Lincolnshire ; Lord Chancellor Hardwicke at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire ; the duke of Kent, his wives and daughters, at Fletton, Bedfordshire ; the earl of Shelburne, at Wycombe, Bucks ; and the figure on the sarcophagus to Montague Sherrard Drake, at Amersham.

It is situated in the Chess Valley and surrounded by farmland, as well as being bordered on one side by Amersham and Chesham Bois.

There are two of the ' big five ' supermarkets present which have impacted on the town's independent stores and all retail outlets have also to compete with other nearby town centres, at Amersham, Berkhamsted and Tring as well as the large shopping centres in High Wycombe, Watford and Milton Keynes.

There is a memorial to local Lollards in Amersham, and memorials to Thomas Harding in the churchyard and on White Hill.

In 2009, because of financial constraints, Transport for London ( TfL ) decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at Amersham and five other stations, on the grounds that these are relatively quiet stations and some are already one or two stops away from an existing step-free station.

He worked with the Amersham Repertory Company, the Bristol Old Vic Company and the Pilgrim Players at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate.

It comprises the following district council wards: Amersham Town ; Amersham Common ; Amersham-on-the-Hill ; Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill.

Hervines Park and Barn Meadow host some cricket in the summer, but the main cricket clubs in the town are Amersham Cricket Club who play in the grounds of Shardeloes and Amersham Hill Cricket Club.

The school was situated in Old Amersham for almost three centuries before moving, with the support of Buckinghamshire County Council, to its present buildings in Amersham-on-the Hill in 1905.

His wife died in April 1708, and he himself died 1 March 1714, at his house, Hunger Hill, Amersham.

In the Victorian era the railway arrived in High Wycombe, and the principal station in the town was on Amersham Hill, close to the village of Hazlemere.

The peculiarity was addressed and the village finally unified inside Little Missenden parish, Chiltern District and Chesham and Amersham constituency following the movement of the administrative boundary to the top of Sawpit Hill in 1987.

In 1915 the school was then moved from this location altogether to its current location on Amersham Hill.

Established by Royal Charter in 1562 ( though originally established as a school in 1550 ), it is situated on Amersham Hill to the north of the town and has a capacity of about 1450 boys aged between 11 and 19.

Amersham & Wycombe College solely consists of three sites ; the main campus being located just off Stanley Hill in Amersham.

The college also runs its own record label, known as SHAM Records, as well as a theatre named The Theatre On The Hill ( located within the Amersham Campus ), as well as a TV show called Amersham & Wycombe TV.

Amersham has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V. Near the playing field is the " Chiltern Pools ", one of the two venues used by the Amersham Swimming Club.

Nearby Amersham has 17, 719.

From 1950 to 1974 the town was part of South Buckinghamshire constituency ; since boundary changes made ahead of the February 1974 general election Chesham has been in the Chesham & Amersham constituency.

Local roads include the A355 which connects Amersham and Slough via Beaconsfield, although this has very heavy traffic in peak times.

When the Chiltern Railways services are included, Amersham still has four trains an hour to London in total, with extra trains from both operators in the peak.

Maintenance of an independent community separate from the Wycombe conurbation has been helped not only by the village's historic connections with the Missendens, Penn Street and Amersham but also by the presence in the village of a full range of amenities including: pre-schools ; primary and secondary schools ; three different Christian denomination churches ( Anglican, Baptist, Methodist ); a GP practice ; a dental practice ; three pubs ( The Bat and Ball, The Earl Howe and The Old Oak ); two clubs ( The British Legion and the Holmer Green Sports Association ); and good sports facilities.

Holmer Green has been part of Chesham and Amersham Parliamentary Constituency since its creation in 1974.

The 2011 proposals for parliamentary constituency boundary changes has kept Holmer Green in Chesham and Amersham constituency.

Depots at Watford, High Wycombe, Hemel Hempstead, Amersham and Slough were acquired with London Country North West in 1990, although Amersham has since closed and Slough was later sold to BeeLine ( now First Berkshire & The Thames Valley.

The Reverend Ebenezer West, principal of Amersham Hall, funded most of the construction of the West Memorial Hall in Caversham, as well as the Caversham Baptist Free Church a decade later.

Amersham is split into two distinct areas: Old Amersham, set in the valley of the River Misbourne, which contains the 13th century parish church of St. Mary's and several old pubs and coaching inns ; and Amersham-on-the-Hill, which grew rapidly around the railway station in the early part of the 20th century.

A church was established which was a branch of Amersham and then became a branch of Chesham Lower Baptist church ( now Trinity ).

The Methodist church is part of the Amersham Methodist Circuit.