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Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north of Fulmer and Hedgerley, north east of Cippenham. It spans foothills of the Chiltern Hills and land on the right bank of the River Misbourne. It is 19.3 miles (31.1 km) west-north-west of Charing Cross, central London. Bulstrode Park Camp was an Iron Age fortified encampment.

The town has a railway station on the Chiltern main line with services to London and the M40 motorway runs beside woodland on its southern boundary.

History[edit]

The town name is new compared with the great bulk of English towns. Gerrards Cross did not exist in any formal sense until 1859 when it was formed by taking pieces out of the three parishes of Chalfont St Peter, Fulmer, Stoke poges and Upton cum Chalvey to form a new ecclesiastical parish. It is named after the Gerrard family who in the early 17th century owned a manor here. At that time homes which were not farms were smallholdings clustered in a hamlet in the south of an elongated parish of Chalfont St Peter. Near its centre is the site of an Iron Age minor hillfort, Bulstrode Park Camp, which is a scheduled ancient monument.^[2] Originally named Jarrett's Cross before the times of the Gerrard family, after a highwayman,^{[citation needed]} some areas retain the original name, such as Jarrett's Hill leading up to WEC International off the A40 west of the town.

In 2014, a major national surveying company named Gerrards Cross as the most sought-after and expensive commuter town or village in their London Hot 100 report, with an average sale price of £1,000,000.^[3]

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Facilities[edit]

The large and distinctive parish church is dedicated to St. James. It was built in 1861 as a memorial to Colonel George Alexander Reid who was MP for Windsor, and designed by Sir William Tite in yellow brick with a Byzantine-style dome, Chinese-looking turrets and an ItalianateCampanile. In 1969 the singer Lulu married Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in the church. The actress Margaret Rutherford is buried with her husband Stringer Davis in the St James Church graveyard.The town has its own library, various restaurants and its own cinema, the Everyman Gerrards Cross.

Independent schools include Maltman's Green School (all girls), St Mary's, Gayhurst and Thorpe House. Students of secondary school age attend either one of the local grammar schools, such as Dr Challoner's Grammar School (Boys with co-educational Sixth Form), Dr Challoner's High School (Girls), The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (Boys), John Hampden Grammar School (Boys), and Beaconsfield High School (Girls) Chesham Grammar School (Co-ed), and the local Upper School, Chalfonts Community College, which is the catchment school, or Long Close School, Upton, Slough.

On the south side of the town is the Gerrards Cross Memorial Building, on the site of the former vicarage. The building was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1922 to commemorate the town's losses during the First World War. It is the only example of a Lutyens war memorial designed with a functional purpose.^[4]

Just outside Gerrards Cross, on the A40 to Beaconsfield, is Wapseys Wood landfill site, one of the largest landfill sites in the UK, operated by Veolia Landfill Ltd. It accepts up to 900,000 tonnes of non hazardous waste each year from south Buckinghamshire, London and other areas.^{[citation needed]}

Transport[edit]

The town has a railway station on the Chiltern Main Line which opened on 2 April 1906. This provides services to London and Birmingham with a commuting time of about 25 minutes to London Marylebone. A new arch over the section of deep railway cutting to allow Tesco to build a supermarket collapsed on 30 June 2005 at 19:30. Nobody was injured but the line was closed for over six weeks. Compensation by Tesco to Chiltern was reported as £8.5m and the retailer compensated by funding a media campaign to reinstate business immediately lost by the closure. Construction of a correctly constructed arch began in January 2009.^[5]

The 11.36am from London Paddington to Gerrards Cross was an official or 'parliamentary train' recognised as an outlandish loss-making service to prevent the link to that terminus being closed or re-allocated. This train now terminates at West Ruislip. In 2011, National Rail was lobbied to phase the service out.^[6]

The town lies 8.4 miles (13.5 km) north west of London's Heathrow Airport.

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Recent history[edit]

Many houses built during development in the 1950s had defective tiles, leading to the highest court reported judgment Young & Marten Ltd v McManus Childs Ltd,^[7] holding that a person who contracts to do work and supply materials implicitly warrants that the materials will be fit for purpose, even if the purchaser specifies the materials to be used.

Popular culture[edit]

Stanley Kubrick filmed some of the exteriors in his feature 1962 film Lolita, notably Charlotte Haze's house, in Gerrards Cross.

'The Italian Lesson' sketch in the first episode of the first series of the BBC Television comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus (first broadcast in 1969) includes the line 'Sono inglese di Gerrard's (sic) Cross', I am an Englishman from Gerrard's Cross.'

Wombling Free (1977 film) about the Wombles was filmed in various locations in Gerrards Cross and nearby Black Park and Pinewood Studios in Wexham

Jethro Tull's song 'Journeyman' on their 1978 album Heavy Horses includes the line 'Too late to stop for tea at Gerrards Cross'.

Indie band the Hit Parade released their 3rd single 'The Sun Shines In Gerrards Cross' in 1986.^{[citation needed]}

St Hubert's House, a Grade II listed house to the southeast of Gerrards Cross, has been used as a filming location for TV series including Inspector Morse and The Professionals, and was the location of Colonel Hyde's house in The League of Gentlemen.^{[citation needed]}

In New Tricks, the popular BBC crime drama, the opening shots of the large house in Season 12 Episode 8 'Lottery Curse' were filmed on the private road of Camp Road in Gerrard's Cross.^{[citation needed]}

Notable people[edit]

• Roy Castle, dancer, singer, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician, lived in Gerrards Cross.
• Amal Clooney, barrister and human rights activist, moved from Lebanon to Gerrards Cross with her family at the age of 2.
• Angela Douglas, actress, born in Gerrards Cross 29 October 1940.
• Kenneth More, actor, born in Gerrards Cross 20 September 1914.
• Dominic Raab, politician, ConservativeMember of Parliament for Esher and Walton and current Foreign Secretary, grew up in Gerrards Cross.
• Joan G. Robinson, author and illustrator, lived in Gerrards Cross. Her best-known book is When Marnie Was There, which was adapted into an animated film by Studio Ghibli.
• Peter Stringfellow, businessman and nightclub owner, lived in Gerrards Cross (died 7 June 2018).^[8][9]

References[edit]

A History of Chalfont St Peter and Gerrards Cross C G Edmonds 1964 and The History of Bulstrode by A M Baker 2003 published as one book by Colin Smythe Ltd. 2003

1. ^ ^abNeighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 2 February 2013
2. ^Historic England. 'Details from listed building database (1006954)'. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
3. ^http://researchgateway.cbre.com/Layouts/PublicReportAccess/Default.aspx?PUBID=bcc5d733-50f3-4f06-9a8b-a67f04b037dc
4. ^Historic England. 'Gerrards Cross Memorial Building (1430052)'. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
5. ^'Tesco restarts work at tunnel collapse site'. New Civil Engineer. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
6. ^'The hunt for Britain's Ghost Trains'. The Independent. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
7. ^[1969] 1 AC 454
8. ^http://amp.timeinc.net/celebsnow/celebrity-news/peter-stringfellow-margaret-thatcher-once-came-to-my-club-661412?source=dam
9. ^Brophy, Joe (7 June 2018). 'A Place In The Sun Where is Peter Stringfellow's house, did he have a home in Gerrards Cross and when did he move to Majorca?'. The Sun. UK. Retrieved 23 November 2018.

External links[edit]

Overlooking Gerrards Cross Common, The Bull is set in a 17th-century building in beautiful landscaped gardens. Free private parking is available and Gerrards Cross town centre and rail station are just 10 minutes’ walk away. Fresh, seasonal produce is served in the hotel’s modern restaurant.

The M40 and the M25 motorways are within a 10-minute drive of the hotel. Marylebone Rail Station is a 25-minute train journey from Gerrards Cross Rail Station. Heathrow Airport is 25 minutes by car and Legoland and Windsor Castle are both within a 30-minute drive of The Bull.

A full and a modern European evening menu are served in the Beeches Restaurant. Local beers and light lunches are available in the Jack Shrimpton Bar, which features a log fire. Free Wi-Fi is available in public areas.

Free minibar, a satellite TV and a hairdryer feature in each modern bedroom. Some rooms have views across the common.

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