A network of flaming tributes to the Queen will stretch throughout the country on Thursday, here are the ones on your doorstep in Buckinghamshire.

Beacons marking the Platinum Jubilee will be lit at 9.45 pm sites including the Tower of London, Windsor Great Park, Hillsborough Castle and the Queen’s estates of Sandringham and Balmoral, along with the tops of the UK’s four highest peaks.

The first beacons will be lit in Tonga and Samoa in the South Pacific, and the final one in the central American country of Belize.

The principal beacon outside the Palace – a 21-metre-tall Tree of Trees sculpture for the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative – will be illuminated by a senior member of the royal family, and images will be projected on to the Palace.

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The history of jubilee beacons

Lighting beacons to celebrate Royal Jubilees, Weddings and Coronations is a long-held tradition.

The flaming displays might appear on top of mountains, church and cathedral towers, castle battlements, on town and village greens, country estates, parks and farms, along beaches and on cliff tops.

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In 1897, beacons were lit to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. In 1977, 2002 and 2012, beacons commemorated the Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees of The Queen, and in 2016 Her Majesty’s 90th birthday.

On Thursday, there are four types of beacons being lit:

  • A free-standing beacon fuelled by bottle gas
  • A beacon brazier with a metal shield
  • A bonfire beacon
  • Bishops Frome Strawman

Platinum Jubilee beacons in Buckinghamshire

Bucks Free Press: Lewis Wilde tests of one of the gas-fuelled beacons he has made which will be used to signal the start of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. Picture: PALewis Wilde tests of one of the gas-fuelled beacons he has made which will be used to signal the start of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. Picture: PA

  • Latimer and Ley Hill Parish Council – Ley Hill Village Common.
  • Waddesdon Parish Council – Waddesdon Community Centre, Waddesdon.
  • Maids Moreton Parish Council – Maids Moreton Playing Field, Maids Moreton.
  • Great Brickhill Jubilee Group – Great Brickhill Cricket Club, Horsepond, Great Brickhill.
  • Hanslope Parish Council – Hanslope Recreation Ground, Hanslope.
  • Wolverton & Greenleys Town Council – Wolverton, Milton Keynes.
  • Great Horwood Parish Council – The Green, Great Horword.
  • Fawley Village Association: Fawley Hill or Fawley Glebe Field.
  • St Nicholas' Church, Chearsley with Chearsley Parish Council – Tower of St Nicholas' Church, Chearsley.
  • National Trust Stowe – Stowe Gardens, National Trust, Buckingham.
  • Berryfields Parish Council – Roman Park, Berryfields.
  • The Parks Trust – Campbell Park Light Pyramid, Milton Keynes.
  • Quainton Parish Council Beacon and Fireworks – Mill Hill, Quainton.
  • Whaddon Parish Council – Coddimoor Farm, Whaddon, Milton Keynes.
  • Soulbury Village, Millennium Green, Soulbury.
  • Akeley Parish Council – Akeley Recreational Field, Chuch Hill, Akeley.
  • Ravenstone Parochial Church Council – The Vicarage, Ravenstone.
  • Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council – Wooburn Park, Wooburn.
  • Stoke Hammond Parish Council – The Sports Field, Bragenham Side, Stoke Hammond.
  • National Trust – Stowe, Stowe Gardens, Buckingham.
  • Burnham Parish Council – Burnham Park Hall, Burnham.
  • Iver Heath Royal British Legion – Iver Heath. Emberton Parish Council.
  • Adstockfields Farm, Adstock.
  • Chalfont St Peter Parish Council