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Settlement
Until the coming of the railways and, later, the motor-car, the Chilterns were largely rural with country towns situated on the main routes through the hills. The position of the hills, northwest of London, has affected the routing of major road, rail and canal routes. These were funnelled through convenient valleys and encouraged settlement and, later, commuter housing. As at 2002 there were 100,000 people living within the AoNB area of the Chilterns.

The western edge of the Chilterns is notable for its ancient strip parishes, elongated parishes with villages in the flatter land below the escarpment and woodland and summer pastures in the higher land.

There major conurbations which lie adjacent to the area defined by the Chilterns AoNB as the Chiltern Hills:- Caversham, Hemel Hempstead,High Wycombe, Luton, Reading and Rickmansworth. There are also a number of smaller market towns which became established at the foot of the scarp slope, including Old Amersham, Beaconsfield, Berkhamsted, Chesham, Dunstable, Hitchin, Marlow and Tring.

Within the upland area there are a large number of villages and hamlets. In some cases these take the form of 'nucleated cluster' settlements, often centred around a village green or church. In other cases the villages and hamlets are characteristically 'nucleated row' settlements set out either side of a road running along a valley or hill ridge. The extent of the larger village settlements are typically coterminous with that of a single civil parish which also bears their name. Smaller settlemnts may be clusted together with the largers two both included in the parish name. There are over 120 civil parishes partially or fully within the Chiltern Hills area.These parishes, organised by county and district authority, are set out below.

South Oxfordshire

 * Aston Rowant
 * Benson
 * Binfield Heath
 * Bix and Assendon
 * Brightwell Baldwin
 * Britwell Salome
 * Checkendon
 * Chinnor


 * Cholsey
 * Crowell
 * Crowmarsh
 * Ewelme
 * Eye and Dunsden,
 * Goring-on-Thames
 * Goring Heath
 * Harpsden


 * Henley-on-Thames
 * Highmoor
 * Ipsden
 * Kidmore End
 * Lewknor
 * Mapledurham
 * Moulsford
 * Nettlebed


 * Nuffield
 * Pishill with Stonor
 * Pyrton
 * Rotherfield Greys
 * Rotherfield Peppard
 * Shiplake
 * Shirburn


 * Sonning Common
 * South Stoke
 * Stoke Row
 * Swyncombe
 * Wallingford
 * Watlington
 * Whitchurch-on-Thames
 * Woodcote

Aylesbury Vale

 * Aston Clinton
 * Buckland


 * Drayton Beauchamp
 * Edlesborough


 * Halton
 * Ivinghoe


 * Marsworth
 * Pitstone


 * Wendover

Chiltern

 * Amersham
 * Ashley Green
 * Chalfont St. Giles
 * Chalfont St Peter


 * Chartridge
 * Chenies
 * Chesham
 * Chesham Bois


 * Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards
 * Coleshill
 * Great Missenden


 * Latimer
 * Little Chalfont
 * Little Missenden


 * Penn
 * Seer Green
 * The Lee

South Bucks

 * Beaconsfield
 * Wooburn

Wycombe

 * Bledlow-cum-Saunderton
 * Bradenham
 * Chepping Wycombe
 * Downley
 * Ellesborough
 * Fawley
 * Great and Little Hampden
 * Great and Little Kimble
 * Great Marlow
 * Hambleden
 * Hambleden


 * Hazlemere
 * Hughenden
 * Ibstone
 * Lacey Green
 * Lane End


 * Little Marlow
 * Marlow Bottom
 * Marlow
 * Medmenham
 * Piddington and Wheeler End


 * Princes Risborough
 * Radnage
 * Stokenchurch
 * Turville
 * West Wycombe

Dacorum

 * Aldbury
 * Berkhamsted
 * Bovingdon,


 * Flamstead
 * Flaunden
 * Great Gaddesden


 * Little Gaddesden
 * Markyate
 * Nettleden with Potten End


 * Northchurch
 * Tring


 * Tring Rural
 * Wigginton

Three Rivers

 * Chorleywood
 * Sarratt

North Hertfordshire

 * Hexton
 * Lilley


 * Offley
 * Pirton

Central Bedfordshire

 * Barton le Clay
 * Caddington
 * Dunstable


 * Eaton Bray
 * Harlington
 * Kensworth


 * Shillington
 * Streatley


 * Studham
 * Sundon


 * Totternhoe
 * Whipsnade