Buckinghamshire UK PDF Vector Map Exact County Plan High Detailed Street Map + Admin editable Adobe PDF in layers

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated as Bucks) is a ceremonial and non − metropolitan county in the South East England region. The county seat is Aylesbury, and the largest city is Milton Keynes. The population is 733,200. The area is 1,874 square kilometers. The River Thames runs through the county. Most of the members of Parliament for Buckinghamshire are Conservatives.

The area is under the control of Buckinghamshire County Council and is divided into 4 wards − Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, and Wycombe. The city of Milton Keynes has the status of a unitary authority and forms part of the county for ceremonial functions, but is not under the control of the council. Buckinghamshire borders Greater London, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

The name “Buckinghamshire” is of Anglo-Saxon origin and literally means “the area near Buck’s house“. The word “home” refers to the town of Buckingham in the north of the county, named after an Anglo-Saxon landowner. The county has been so-called since the 12th century, although it existed earlier, as part of the Kingdom of Wessex.

The history of Buckinghamshire began long before the Anglo-Saxon period, the Celts and Romans contributed a lot to the development of this territory, although, most likely, it was the Anglo-Saxons who had the strongest influence on it: for example, for the most part, the geography of the local countryside remained the same as it was under them. Buckinghamshire later became an important political arena, beginning with King Henry VIII intervening in local politics, and ending with the English Revolution (1642-1649), which John Hampden is believed to have started in the middle Buckinghamshire.

The most dramatic historical changes to the county occurred in the 19th century, when, along with the industrial revolution, the rural areas of Buckinghamshire were overwhelmed by cholera and famine − many people migrated from there either to the major cities or even outside the county. Businessmen and rich people took advantage of the situation and began to buy up sharply cheaper land, at this time the image of rural, “green Buckinghamshire” was born, which still exists today. Buckinghamshire is home to many people working in London, which contributes to the county’s prosperity, although some areas with large relative deprivation remain.

Buckinghamshire’s economy is a modern, service-based economy. The county has a lot of fertile agricultural land, and industries include furniture manufacturing (High Wycombe), pharmaceuticals, and agricultural processing. In addition, the county has the best standard of living in the entire country, a long life expectancy, and the best quality of education, according to the results of inspections. Buckinghamshire has a selective system of education − “grammar” schools (lyceums) for children with fairly good abilities and secondary modern schools (in fact, general education). The county has 9 private schools and 34 public schools, as well as 6 preparatory colleges. The city of High Wycombe is home to the New Buckinghamshire University, and The University of Buckingham, one of the two private universities in the UK and the only one independent of the state.

There are four major motorways running through Buckinghamshire: the M40, M1, M25, and M4. Roads to London are well developed, although there are no major direct highways between the north and south of the county. Buckinghamshire is also connected to the rest of the country by many railway lines, and it is connected to the capital by a branch of the London underground “Metropolitan Line“.

Today’s Buckinghamshire is an ethnically diverse area, which is especially noticeable in large cities. At the end of the 19th century, a number of Welsh families moved to north Buckinghamshire, and in the last quarter of the 20th century, a large number of Londoners moved to Milton Keynes. Aylesbury has a significant population of Italians, and Amersham has had a huge Polish community since the Second World War. High Wycombe is the county’s most ethnically diverse town − with its large Asian, Afro-Caribbean, Polish, and Eastern European communities.

Buckinghamshire has many museums and places of historical and scientific interest, including Waddesdon Manor and the Roald Dahl Museum, which have won several tourist awards. Almost half of the county is covered by the beech forest of Chiltern Forest, which is why the beech got on the Buckinghamshire coat of arms, as well as the swan – even in Anglo-Saxon times, these birds were bred to delight the eyes of the monarch, and the ancient law still applies, according to which all unmarked sibilant swans in the Thames belong to the British monarch.

The motto of the county is the phrase in Latin − “Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum“, which means”Do not retreat“.

Printable PDF Vector Map of Buckinghamshire UK detailed County Plan scale 1:2906 full editable Adobe PDF  Street Map in layers, scalable, text format  all names, 127 MB ZIP
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1. Legend
2. Grids
3. Labels of roads
4. Names of places (city, hamlet, etc.)
5. Names of objects (hospitals, parks, water)
6. Names of main streets
7. Names of civil streets
8. Names of counties
9. Main Streets, roads
10. Civil streets
11. Railroads
12. Buildings
13. Streets and roads polygons (part)
14. Airports and heliports
15. Water objects (rivers, lakes, ponds)
16. Waterways
17. Color fills (parks, hospital areas, land use, etc.)
18. Counties areas
19. Background