In which English county can the Prime Minister's country house Chequers be found?
Chequers into the estate. In July 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May held a Cabinet meeting at Chequers to agree the UK's approach to Brexit which became known as the proposed "Chequers plan". Downing Street and Chequers are about apart. The Ridgeway National Trail crosses the private drive. Notes Bibliography Chequers Chequers, or Chequers Court, is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th century manor house in origin, it is located near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. It is about
English country house this slow decline, as late as 1920, so necessary was the country house for entertaining and prestige that, following the election of the first Labour Government in 1921, Viscount Lee of Fareham donated his country house Chequers to the nation for the use of a prime minister who might not possess one of his own. Chequers still fulfils that need today as do both Chevening House and Dorneywood, donated for sole use of high-ranking ministers of the Crown. Today, many country houses have become hotels, schools, hospitals, museums and prisons, while others have survived as conserved ruins, but from the