Where to get an overall history of Chalfont St Giles

If you want just an overview a number of sources exist both online and in print.
The books and Internet sites listed below are the ones of which I am aware. The comments are my personal views.
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If you want a short summary general history of Chalfont St Giles there is a good one by Fred Nolan on the Chalfont St Giles Village web site

See the Books page for a full list of printed books

The best comprehensive, academic, but now rather out of date source is still the Victoria County History of Buckinghamshire Vol 3. pp184-93. Published 1925. There is an on-line transcript

If your interest is primarily family history Genuki has a brief overview and links to relevant county wide sources

If you want know what the Domesday Book has to say it has been transcribed.

The Captain Cook Society has information on The Vache, Chalfont St. Giles - A Brief History with particular reference to the Captain Cook Memorial.

The following links are self explanatory.

Milton's Cottage Trust

Milton biography and downloadable books

A Brief Introduction to the Life and Works of John Milton

Jack Hearne Cricketer

Bucks Building Society

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