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Gerrards Cross

Gerrards Cross
This is Gerrards Cross town centre (to my mind) - geograph.org.uk - 29075.jpg
Gerrards Cross town centre .
Gerrards Cross is located in Buckinghamshire
Gerrards Cross
Gerrards Cross
Gerrards Cross shown within Buckinghamshire
Area 10.88 km2 (4.20 sq mi)
Population 8,017 (2011 Census)
• Density 737/km2 (1,910/sq mi)
OS grid reference SU999880
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Gerrards Cross
Postcode district SL9
Dialling code 01753
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
BuckinghamshireCoordinates: 51°35′18″N 0°33′11″W / 51.5882°N 0.553°W / 51.5882; -0.553

Gerrards Cross (/ˌɛrədzˈkrɒs/) is a town and civil parish in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the county, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham. London is centred 19 miles east. Geographically large and suburban, Gerrards Cross is south of Chalfont St Peter and north of Fulmer and Hedgerley. It spans foothills of the Chiltern Hills and land on the right bank of the River Misbourne — it has a central public park, Gerrards Cross Common and Bulstrode Park Camp, a preserved area of land which was an Iron Age fortified encampment.

The town has a railway station on the Chiltern main line whose operator provides a fast service from the station to London and the M40 motorway is beside woodland on the southern boundary of the civil parish and the settlement has a commercial and leisure central area which is smaller than the nearby town of Beaconsfield.

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 five parishes of Chalfont St Peter, Fulmer, Iver, Langley Marish and Upton 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 site of an Iron Age minor hillfort, Bulstrode Park Camp, which is a scheduled ancient monument Originally named Jarrett's Cross before the times of the Gerrard family, after a highwayman, some areas retain the original name, such as Jarrett's Hill leading up to WEC International off the A40 west of the town.


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