Editing Amersham (section)

== Geography ==
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Old Amersham occupies the valley floor of the [[River Misbourne]]. This is a [[chalk stream]] which dries up periodically. The river occupies a valley much larger than it is possible for a river the size of the present [[River Misbourne]] to cut, which makes it a [[misfit stream]]. The valley floor is at around {{cvt|100|m}} [[Ordnance Datum|OD]], and the valley top is at around {{cvt|165|m}} [[Ordnance Datum|OD]]. It is likely that the valley was formed under conditions akin to those required to form a [[dry valley]]. Amersham-on-the-Hill is built on the north side of the Misbourne valley on a small [[plateau]] that forms the [[Water divide|watershed]] between the Misbourne and the neighbouring [[River Chess]].

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| title = '''Neighbouring villages'''<ref name="Google">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/googlebooks/library/index.html|title=Google Books Library Project – An enhanced card catalog of the world's books|access-date=26 January 2015}}</ref>
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|Centre    = Amersham
|North     = [[Chesham Bois]]
|Northeast = [[Ley Hill]]
|East      = [[Little Chalfont]]
|Southeast = [[Chalfont St Giles]]
|South     = [[Seer Green]]
|Southwest = [[Coleshill, Buckinghamshire|Coleshill]]
|West      = [[Little Missenden]]
|Northwest = [[Hyde Heath]]
}}