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City Centre Aylesbury
Aylesbury
~0.18 miles from Aylesbury city center
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City Centre Amersham
Buckinghamshire
~13.10 miles from Aylesbury city center
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City Centre High Wycombe
High Wycombe
~13.17 miles from Aylesbury city center
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City Centre Buckingham
Buckingham
~14.69 miles from Aylesbury city center
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City Centre Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes
~15.79 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Milton Keynes Shopping Centre
Milton Keynes
~16.00 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre is a regional shopping centre located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England which is about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. It is managed in two separate parts, thecentre:mk and Midsummer Place.
Main articles: Central Milton Keynes and History of Milton Keynes
The Milton Keynes Development Corporation began work on the original "Shopping Building" in 1973 as the largest building of Central Milton Keynes. The architects were Derek Walker, Stuart Mosscrop, and Chris Woodward; and the engineers were Felix Samuely and Partners. The design followed the minimalist principles of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and envisaged glass-covered shopping streets or arcades on the scale of the Galleria in Milan. Derek Walker likened it to the Crystal Palace [2] The Shopping Building's glass-and-steel envelope accommodated 130 shops and six department stores, arranged down two parallel daylit arcades, planted with sub-tropical and temperate trees. The shopping area was opened on 25 September 1979 by Margaret Thatcher. It was described in 1993 as "still the best-looking if no longer the biggest shopping centre in the British Isles".[3].With a length of 720 metres, it was said to contain the longest shopping mall in the world.[4]
In 1993, the building was extended at the western end, over what was the City Square, embraced by projecting lengths of the arcades. In architectural style this extension is similar to the original, though the join can be detected internally by the lack of lofty arcades in the extension.
Midsummer Place is effectively a southwards extension of the centre; it was designed by GMW Architects of London and opened in 2000. Part of Midsummer Boulevard had to be closed to allow this to be built but it was a planning requirement that Midsummer Place did not physically attach to the original building.
Whereas some large shopping centres have several levels, at Milton Keynes the public access to all the shops is from the ground floor. Some of the shops then have two or three floors inside. A service road for thecentre:mk runs above the shops so that large lorries servicing the shops at roof level, removing the service roads and loading bays at ground level that mar so many large shopping centres; while the Midsummer Place shops are serviced from below, with car parking above them. This means all deliveries take place out of view of the shoppers.
Originally, the internal landscaping designed by Roger Griffiths and Tony Southard was very lavish with 47 plant beds with large plants and trees; temperate in the Northerly arcade and semi-tropical in the southerly one. The planters were finished in the same travertine as the floor, but approximately one third of these have been removed since the building was opened, with consequent loss of planting.
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City Centre Marlow
Buckinghamshire
~16.92 miles from Aylesbury city center
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City Centre Luton
Bedfordshire
~17.08 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Kenilworth Roadless (Luton Town F.C.)
Bedfordshire
~17.12 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Luton Train Station
Bedfordshire
~17.83 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Luton railway station is located in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The station is near to the town centre, about three minutes' walk from the Arndale Shopping Centre. It is situated on the Midland Main Line and is operated by First Capital Connect.
It was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. For some years it was known as Luton Midland Road to distinguish it from the earlier Luton Bute Street, built in 1858 on the GNR line from Hertford North to Leighton Buzzard.
In order to build the line a public area known as the "Great Moor" had to be built through. The remainder of the land was bought for development by John Crawley, who provided a replacement in what is known as the "People's Park." This proved a worthwhile investment because, as the town's staple trade in straw hats diminished as they went out of fashion, it was replaced by engineering works. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the population had nearly trebled, and the station had become an important stop for main line expresses. The station originally consisted of only 3 platforms before modernisation in 1937 saw an additional fourth platform added then again in 1960 when a further platform was added for the suburban services to and from St. Pancras.
Upon the opening of Eurostar at St. Pancras International, through-fares to continental Europe were made available from Luton and 67 other UK towns and cities to Paris, Brussels and other destinations in France and Belgium.
The station is set for significant investment from both Network Rail and First Group to improve facilities for customers as well as creating longer platforms as part of the Thameslink programme. In 2009 the station was identified as one of ten 'worst' major stations on the network and is set to receive a share of £50m funding for improvements.
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Aylesbury
Bisham Abbey
Maidenhead
~17.97 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Bisham Abbey is a Grade I listed manor house at Bisham in the English county of Berkshire. The name is taken from the now lost monastery which once stood alongside. The abbey church proper, previously Bisham Priory, was the traditional resting place of many Earls of Salisbury. The complex surrounding the extant manorial buildings is now one of five National Sports Centres run on behalf of Sport England.
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Aylesbury
Magdelen Bridge Boathouse
Oxfordshire
~18.88 miles from Aylesbury city center
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It is possible to hire punts from a small boathouse at the base of the bridge next to Magdalen College.
http://www.riverthames.co.uk/boat/hire/1732.htm
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University Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Oxfordshire
~19.17 miles from Aylesbury city center
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The University Church of St Mary the Virgin (St Mary's or SMV for short) is the largest of Oxford's parish churches and the centre from which the University of Oxford grew. It is situated on the north side of the High Street, and is surrounded by university and college buildings.
St Mary's has one of the most beautiful spires in England and an eccentric baroque porch, designed by Nicholas Stone, facing High Street. Radcliffe Square lies to the north and to the east is Catte Street. The 13th century tower is open to the public for a fee and provides good views across the heart of the historic university city, especially Radcliffe Square, the Radcliffe Camera, Brasenose College and All Souls College.
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The Radcliffe Camera
Oxfordshire
~19.17 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Sheldonian Theatre
Oxfordshire
~19.18 miles from Aylesbury city center
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The Sheldonian Theatre, located in Oxford, England, was built from 1664 to 1668 after a design by Christopher Wren for the University of Oxford. The building is named after Gilbert Sheldon, chancellor of the university at the time and the project's main financial backer. It is used for music concerts, lectures and university ceremonies, but not for drama.
What came to be known as the Sheldonian Theatre was Wren's second work, and was commissioned by Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury. With the triumph of the Restoration and with it the Church of England, Dean Fell sought to revive a project proposed in the 1630s by the late William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury: a separate building whose sole use would be graduation and degree ceremonies.
In the past these increasingly rowdy occasions had taken place in the university's church of St.-Mary-the-Virgin-on-High. "The notion that 'sacrifice is made equally to God and Apollo', in the same place where homage was due to God and God alone, was as repugnant to Fell and his colleagues as it had been to Laud."; with this in mind they approached the current Archbishop of Canterbury Gilbert Sheldon, both for his blessing, his assistance, and a donation.
Sheldon was forthcoming with all three. He initially gave an impressive £1,000 (£113,113 today) and pledged to gather the needed money from like-minded sponsors. He had little luck, however, and ultimately financed nearly the entire £14,470 (£1,636,744 today) himself, in an age where a mid-level craftsman's wage was typically between £2 and £4 per year.
Nothing is known for sure of Wren's first designs for the Sheldonian, but the finished building was a sharp, unmistakable break from the Gothic past. Wren designed the Sheldonian based on Serlio's engraving of the D-shaped Theatre of Marcellus in Rome in the first century BC.
Like any Mediterranean theatre of that time, the Theatre of Marcellus had no roof: the audience relied on a temporary awning for inclement weather. But 17th century Oxford was not ancient Rome, and the Theatre needed a permanent roof. Yet the span of the D-shaped roof was over 70 feet (21 m). No timbers existed that were long enough to cross that distance, and Wren dismissed the obvious solution of a Gothic roof. Instead, he decided to use the "geometrical flat floor" grid developed twenty years before by Oxford professor John Wallis.
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The Oxford Story
Oxfordshire
~19.33 miles from Aylesbury city center
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The Oxford Story was a major tourist attraction in Oxford giving the local history but has now been closed down
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City Centre Oxford
Oxfordshire
~19.49 miles from Aylesbury city center
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City Centre Henley on Thames
Henley-on-Thames
~19.58 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Oxford Central Train Station
Oxfordshire England
~19.81 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Oxford is a mainline railway station serving the city of Oxford, England. It is about ten minutes' walk to the west of the city centre, and on the line linking Reading with Birmingham New Street. It is also on the line for express trains from London Paddington to Hereford via Worcester. It is a starting point for fast and local trains to London Paddington and for local trains to Reading, Worcester and Bicester Town. The station is operated by First Great Western, and also used by CrossCountry and occasionally Chiltern Railways trains.
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All Saints' Church
Maidenhead
~20.72 miles from Aylesbury city center
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City Centre St Albans
Hertfordshire
~20.88 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Maidenhead Railway Bridge (Maidenhead Viaduct)
Maidenhead
~20.93 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Maidenhead Railway Bridge (aka Maidenhead Viaduct) is a railway bridge carrying the main line of the Great Western Railway over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Bray Lock and Boulter's Lock
The bridge was designed by the Great Western's famous engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and it was completed in 1838, but not brought into use until 1 July 1839.[2] The railway is carried across the river on two brick arches, which at the time of building were the widest and flattest in the world. Each span is 128 feet (39 m), with a rise of only 24 feet (7 m). The flatness of the arches was necessary to avoid putting a "hump" in the bridge, which would have gone against Brunel's obsession with flat, gentle gradients (1 in 1,320 on this stretch). The Thames towpath passes under the right-hand arch (facing upstream), which is also known as the Sounding Arch, because of its spectacular echo.
It has been claimed that the board of the Great Western Railway did not believe that the arches would stay up under the weight of the trains and ordered Brunel to leave the wooden formwork used to construct the arches in place. However, Brunel simply lowered the formwork slightly so that it had no structural effect, but appeared to be in place. Later, when the formwork was washed away in floods, but the bridge remained, the strength of the arches was accepted.
As built, Maidenhead Railway Bridge carried two lines of Brunel's broad gauge track. Subsequently the bridge has been widened, and now carries the four lines of standard gauge track that make up the Great Western Main Line out of London Paddington Station.
Maidenhead Railway Bridge features in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, painted by Turner in 1844 and now in the National Gallery, London
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Aylesbury
City Centre Watford
Watford
~21.08 miles from Aylesbury city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Aylesbury
St. Paul's Church (Slough)
Slough
~22.80 miles from Aylesbury city center
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From their website:
St. Paul's Parish Church is based in the heart of Slough, Berkshire (UK)
As an evangelical Anglican Church, we believe in the authority of the Bible, and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
We are an increasingly multi-ethnic congregation, reflecting the diversity within our parish. Committed to spreading God's word in Slough, we have a vibrant church life, with many different activities for all ages.
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Slough Train Station
Slough
~23.09 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Slough railway station, in Slough, Berkshire, England, is served by local services operated by First Great Western from Paddington to Reading. It is on the Great Western Main Line, the original line of the Great Western Railway, and is also the junction for the Windsor branch.
The station is just to the north of the town centre, on the north side of the A4.
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City Centre Slough
Slough
~23.15 miles from Aylesbury city center
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St. Mary's Church (Slough)
Slough
~23.41 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Church Street
Slough, 03 SL11PJ
United Kingdom
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St. Laurence Church, Slough
Slough
~23.76 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Saint Laurence's Church is one of three churches in the modern parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, and is the oldest building in the borough of Slough, in Berkshire, England.
In the 12th century the wooden parish church of Upton was replaced with a flint building. The tower and outside walls of the Norman building form part of the present church. Several walls bear testament to pudding stone construction. Two other Norman features survive: the ancient baptismal font, and a piscina. During the reformation, many of the ancient decorations were mutilated. A 13th century Italian allegorical image of the Trinity – God Father, Son and Holy Spirit – survived and was reassembled during the restoration of the church.
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Aylesbury
Eton College
Eton
~24.09 miles from Aylesbury city center
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Eton College is a world-famous British independent school for boys, founded in 1440. Eton was founded by King Henry VI as the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor.
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor".
It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.
It has a very long list of distinguished former pupils, including eighteen former British Prime Ministers. Traditionally, Eton has been referred to as "the chief nurse of England's statesmen",[2] and has been described as the most famous public school in the world.[3] Early in the 20th century, a historian of Eton wrote "No other school can claim to have sent forth such a cohort of distinguished figures to make their mark on the world
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Aylesbury
River Thames
Eton
~24.44 miles from Aylesbury city center
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The River Thames (pronounced /'t?mz/ ( listen)) is a major river flowing through southern England. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows through several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading and Windsor.
The river gives its name to several administrative / political names: The Thames Valley, a region of England centred around the river between Oxford and West London, the Thames Gateway, the area centred around the tidal Thames, and the Thames Estuary to the east of London.
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