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1 The Crown Inn Buckinghamshire

The sleepy market town of Amersham is popular with commuters, as it is both located at the end of London’s Metropolitan tube line and yet also in the foothills of the Chiltern Hills, an officially designated ‘Area of Natural Beauty’.

The High Street boasts not one but two hotels featured in the 1994 romcom . When Charles and

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