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Chalfont is a home-rule borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Neshaminy Creek and Pine Run both flow through town.

Chalfont takes its name from Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, England, the village that was home to William Penn's first wife; Penn himself is buried at the Jordans Quaker Meeting House near Chalfont St Giles.

The Chalfont area's recorded history begins in 1683, when its land was first purchased in the earliest years of William Penn's Pennsylvania colony.

In 1720 Simon Butler bought more than 150 acres including the village site and built a home and mill, later adding over 400 more acres; over the years the settlement was known as Butler's Mill, Kungle's Tavern, Barndtsville, and Whitehallville.

On June 20, 1778, detachments of George Washington's Continental Army passed through Chalfont on the march from Valley Forge toward the Battle of Monmouth.

The name Chalfont stuck after the North Penn Railroad renamed its station here 'Chalfont' in 1869; the borough's station, first built in 1855, is still served today by SEPTA Regional Rail's Lansdale/Doylestown Line.

From 1885 until 1968, Chalfont was home to Forest Park, which opened as picnic grounds and grew into a popular amusement park with rides and a large swimming pool built in the 1930s.

The 2020 census counted 4,253 residents in Chalfont living in about 1,630 households, with a median age of 42.1 years.

The Chalfont Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, preserves the borough's colonial and Victorian houses.

The borough covers about 1.64 square miles in the Neshaminy Creek valley.