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6 unusual facts about Chiltern


Alfred Arthur O'Connor

Alfred Arthur O'Connor was a wild-card Irish miner who attended the Melbourne Land Convention 1857 and was elected onto the Ballarat Mining Board 1858; he followed the big gold rush to Chiltern in 1859 and was a successful deep wet lead miner.

Chiltern, Victoria

The winning clip of the 2009 J Award for Best Music Video of the Year, Alex Roberts' video for Art vs. Science's Parlez-vous Français?, was entirely shot in this town.

The township, named after the Chiltern Hills in England, was surveyed in 1853 but not established until gold discoveries in 1858-59 during the greater Victorian Gold Rush period.

Grade II* listed buildings in Chiltern

This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Chiltern in Buckinghamshire.

Mary Gaunt

Mary was the eldest daughter of William Henry Gaunt, a Victorian county court judge, and was born in Chiltern, Victoria.

Nigel Lappin

Lappin was born in the locally-based regional hospital at Corowa, New South Wales and grew up in Chiltern, Victoria.


British Rail Class 115

The Marylebone sets, which were later transferred to Bletchley but remained on Chiltern Line duties, were declared surplus after the introduction of Class 165s, from 1991 onwards.

Chiltern Edge School

Chiltern Edge School (also known as Chiltern Edge Secondary School) is a mixed, comprehensive school in Sonning Common, Oxfordshire (near Reading in Berkshire).

Chiltern Football Club

The Chiltern Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Tallangatta & District Football League.

Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chiltern Open Air Museum is a museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

Chiltern Radio Network

The Chiltern Radio Network also set up a satellite news service as a direct competitor to IRN called Network News.

Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways operates services on the Chiltern Main Line from London Marylebone to Aylesbury, Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham Snow Hill with some peak-hour services to Kidderminster.

Claire Loewenfeld

After the war, Claire set up Chiltern Herb Farm in Buckland Common, Buckinghamshire, with her husband, who before the war had practiced as an attorney and later had become a landscape architect.

Heart Norwich

Nick Risby joined from Red Rose Radio in Preston, Tony Gillham came from Chiltern and BBC Bedfordshire, Dave Brown from Radio Tees, Rob Chandler from Radio Orwell and Adrian Finighan from Gwent Radio.

Kiss 101

Chiltern's Paul Chantler then became the station's programme director and chief executive.

Nascot Wood

The Industrial Revolution brought the Grand Junction Canal (now Grand Union Canal) in 1798 and the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837, both located here for the same reasons the road had followed centuries before, seeking an easy gradient over the Chiltern Hills.

Philippa Collins

During her Chiltern years, Philippa was also recording a weekday evening show for DAB station Core and covering the GWR group's syndicated showbiz evening and late night shows followed, and she briefly presented the networked "Cash Call" five nights a week.

Thames Turbo

British Rail Class 165, in service with both Chiltern Railways and First Great Western

Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance

The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East of England.

Tony Harman

He followed up with The Charolais adventure 1959-1989 (1990) about the introduction of the French Charolais cattle breed and A Thousand Years on a Chiltern Farm: The Story of Grove Farm, Chesham, Buckinghamshire (1999).


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