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ACE Garage Doors have supplied and fitted quite a few new garage doors to customers in the Beaconsfield area. We have serviced and repaired a fair number in this area too.

Garage doors are often the last part of a property to be considered when it comes to home improvements for some strange reason. We have visited many properties that have been beautifully extended and improved with gorgeous new windows and doors, driveways, and landscaping to die for, yet the garage door lets the property down with peeling paint or dents all over it.

When one considers the cost involved in getting a new garage door, it is insignificant when compared to what the other home improvements must have cost to put in place.

Where is Beaconsfield?

Beaconsfield sits in the serenity of the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is part of the London commuter belt. This means that the average cost of housing in Beaconsfield is extremely high. It is in the South Bucks local government district, which was known as the Beaconsfield district from 1974 to 1980.

Beaconsfield is a very pleasant market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire and is only twenty-four miles northwest of central London and a mere sixteen miles southeast of Aylesbury. Three other towns are within five miles: Gerrards Cross, Amersham and High Wycombe.

Beaconsfield is not only adjacent to the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, to add extra charm to the area, it has Georgian, neo-Georgian and Tudor revival high street architecture in the Old Town. It is known for the first model village in the world and the National Film and Television School.

Beaconsfield was identified as Britain's richest town in 2008. In 2011, it had the highest proportion in the United Kingdom of £1 million-plus homes for sale. So, it is little wonder that we love the opportunity to work in the Beaconsfield area, making the splendid properties even better.

History of Beaconsfield

The parish is made up of Beaconsfield town and land mainly given over to arable land. Some beech forest remains to supply an established and famed beech furniture industry in High Wycombe, where the making of modal and various artisan furniture has brought customers from all over the world.

Beaconsfield is recorded in property returns of 1185 where it is spelt Bekenesfeld, literally beechen field which means a clearing in the beeches. Nearby Burnham Beeches is a forest named after the beech tree genus. Although, it is often incorrectly contested that Beaconsfield derived its name from a street called Beacon Hill in neighbouring village, Penn, which was a lookout point and beacon originating in Saxon times. Local men were called to defend an island fort as the beacon was part of a chain from the naval base at Portsmouth via Butser Hill Hindhead, Hogsback and Windsor.

The parish church at the crossroads of Old Beaconsfield is dedicated to St Mary, it was rebuilt of flint and bath stone by the Victorians in 1869. The United Reformed Church in Beaconsfield can trace its roots of non-conformist worship in the town back to 1704. Old Beaconsfield has a number of old coaching inns along a wide street of red brick houses and small shops. It was the first coach stopping point on the road between London and Oxford, as it is located exactly the same distance between the two places.

An annual charter fair is traditionally held on 10 May and has been held every year since 1269 celebrating its 750th year in 2019.

In the Victorian era Beaconsfield was the home constituency of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and then again from 1874 until 1880. The former Premier kept a home, Hughenden Manor in the nearby town of High Wycombe. In 1876 he was made the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria with whom he was extremely popular. It was due to this that Beaconsfield became a popular road name in industrial cities across the country in the late Victorian era.

Beaconsfield is the burial place of the author G. K. Chesterton, Edmund Burke, and the poet Edmund Waller, for whom a tall stone obelisk was erected over the tomb chest in St Mary and All Saints' churchyard.

In 1624, Waller's family acquired Wilton Manor and Hall Barn in Beaconsfield. The Wallers, who came from Speldhurst, Kent, were settled at Beaconsfield as early as the 14th century.

An architectural first for Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is the home of Bekonscot model village, which was the first model village in the world; and Beaconsfield Film Studios becoming the National Film and Television School, where many film directors and technicians have honed their craft. It is the birthplace of the celebrated author Terry Pratchett, famously responsible for the Discworld series of fantasy novels. Several scenes in Brief Encounter, a classic film about a woman in a dull middle-class marriage who almost undertakes an affair, were filmed in the town: Station Parade served as Milford High Street and Boots on Burke's Parade was where Alec runs into Laura. The exterior of the Royal Saracens Head Inn can be seen in the James Bond film Thunderball, and the interior shots for the pub in Hot Fuzz were filmed in the Royal Standard of England pub. Many other parts of the town have been used in films due to the old film studio and nearby Pinewood Studios.

The railway brought new live to Beaconsfield

The New Town was built one mile further to the north, when the railway arrived, at the turn of the 20th century. The railway station is on the Chiltern Main Line out of Marylebone towards High Wycombe, after which it then branches to Aylesbury, and Birmingham Snow Hill. Old Beaconsfield which grew up on the Oxford Road in part to serve the coach traffic, is mirrored by New Beaconsfield which has grown up round the station.

Like so many of the neighbouring areas, Beaconsfield is a lovely place to be, and we enjoy working here. ACE Garage Doors have fitted new garage doors to some splendid properties in the Beaconsfield area over the years and we always look forward to receiving work enquiries from this area. So, if you live in or around the Beaconsfield area, why not give us a call today.