Chesham Town Council

12/09/2026

There will be so much to do in Chesham on Sunday 13th September for Heritage Open Days.

In the Old Town, you can visit:
St Mary's Church
Weylands House - the old workhouse on Germain Street
The Way Lane Workhouse Allotments on Wey Lane
Chesham 1879 LT & SC Club in Pednor

Moving into the town centre, there is:
The United Reformed Church
The Good Earth Gallery
Chesham Museum with their fantastic Kantha embroidery workshop
Chapter Two
JPS Stationers
Trinity Christian Community Centre on Red Lion Street

On Bellingdon Road you can visit:
Chesham Mosque
Kevin Meyers Organ Builder
Chesham Cemetery (with guided walks at 11am and 2pm - meet at the Berkhamsptead Road entrance)
The Friends Meeting House

Meet on the Moor hardstanding car park at 4pm for the Mills and Blooms walk hosted by the River Chess Association.

And at the North Eastern side of town, the Cameron Road allotments will be open with delicious homemade cake on offer, and the Air Raid Shelter Cafe and Tea Room on Botley Road will be open, too.

Best of all, visiting all of these is free, thanks to the generosity of people opening their venues. To check the times for each venue, please visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk and search for Chesham.

Heritage Open Days in Chesham is hosted by the town council and Chesham Society.

11/09/2026

Today, the H.G. Matthews brickworks at Bellingdon are open for Heritage Open Days. At this traditional, family-run brickworks, bricks are made by hand and fired in updraft Scotch kilns, unchanged in design since Roman times.

Visit at 12pm and 3pm for guided tours of one of this area's historic industries.

To see what else is on this weekend, visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk and search for Chesham.

11/09/2026

25th Anniversary of 9/11

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001.

At 2.59pm on Friday 11th September, please join The Mayor and councillors at the War Memorial for a moment of reflection and a minute's silence to
remember those who lost their lives, honour the courage of the emergency services, and reflect on the resilience shown by communities around the world.

10/09/2026

The amazing team at Love Lowndes are hosting Stand Up for Love Lowndes with Chesham Comedy Club. All proceeds will go to the new early-years play area. Grab your tickets here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/stand-up-for-love-lowndes

10/09/2026

10/09/2026

Thanks to everyone that has used the bra bank in our Town Hall reception area - we have now filled our second bag!

It's great to see the donations coming in, knowing these will help Against Breast Cancer to fund its vital research.

We need your help to fill one more bag, at which point the bras will be collected and recycled. Please do drop off any bras you no longer need to support this fantastic scheme.

We are pleased to be supporting Against Breast Cancer's bra recycling scheme. If you visit the Town Hall, you will see we have a bra bank in our reception area, which we will be using to collect unwanted or unloved bras.

When enough bras have been donated, they will be collected and recycled, raising valuable funds for pioneering research into secondary spread breast cancer and preventing landfill waste in the process.

Against Breast Cancer receives £700 to fund its research for every tonne of bras collected.

Please do drop off any bras you no longer need in our bra bank to support this scheme.

10/09/2026

This Sunday at the Town Hall for Heritage Open Day! To see what else is on in Chesham, visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk and search for Chesham.

COME AND SEE US!!

09/09/2026

You can explore the Old Town for Heritage Open Days on Sunday 13th September.
Visit the original workhouse gardens, now the Wey Lane allotments - a continuous site of cultivation for centuries! And you can also see the ground floor of the 19th Century workhouse, now called Weylands House, on Germain Street. Refreshments will be served by Fairtrade Chesham and you can enjoy a cup of tea by the river in the beautiful garden.

There is St Mary's Church, Grade 1 listed where you can take a tour to the belfry, view the parish records and hear the organ. And there is the 1879 Tennis and Squash Club in Pednor where you can view a selection of artefacts, as well as watching games being played from the patio. You can also have a go at Padel, squash or tennis!

Check out www.heritageopendays.org.uk and search for Chesham to find all the venues that will be open, with opening times, accessibility and more information.

08/09/2026

This Sunday, Kevin Meayers' Organ Factory on Bellingdon Road will be open for visitors between 10.30am and 5pm. Surely one of the most intriguing businesses in town, and one of only two such factories in the country, you can hear the organs, see organs undergoing restoration and discover how sheet music is transformed into the books that the organs use to make their amazing music.

To find out what else is on in Chesham, visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk and search for Chesham.

07/09/2026

Always a very popular venue for Heritage Open Day, the Mosque on Bellingdon Road will be open on Sunday 13th September for guided tours between 11am and 1.30pm and 2.30 and 4.30pm.

To find out what other venues are open, visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk and search for Chesham.