Haddenham, Buckinghamshire - Haddenham, Buckinghamshire Haddenham is a large village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 5 miles south west of Aylesbury and 2 miles north east of Thame. The village name is Anglo Saxon and means Haeda's Homestead. It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hedreham, though later in 1142 it had taken on it's more modern form and was called Hedenham. From the Norman conquest to the time of the dissolution of the monasteries the village was in the possession of the Convent of St Andrew in Rochester. King Henry VIII of England, who gained possession of the village after the dissolution, held on to it for the rest of his natural life, passing it at the time of his death to his daughter.
Haddenham - Haddenham Haddenham is the name of more than one place, including: Haddenham, a village in Buckinghamshire, England Haddenham, a village in Cambridgeshire, England This is a disambiguation page. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link..
Buckinghamshire - Buckinghamshire Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 Towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire 3 Places of interest 4 Famous People from Bucks Introduction Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in south central England. It has an area of 1883 sq km, and its county town is Aylesbury. It has a population of 590,000. It borders onto Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire, and Berkshire. It is an agricultural county, covering part of the Chiltern Hills to the South and the Vale of Aylesbury to the north. It has fertile agricultural lands, with many landed estates, especially those of the de Rothschild family in the 19th century (see Rothschild properties in Buckinghamshire). Industry: Agricultural, furniture, pharmaceuticals, service and distribution industries. There are some residential commuter.
Kingsey - Kingsey Kingsey is a small village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located near the border with Oxfordshire, about two miles east of Thame, a mile south of Haddenham. The village name is of Twelfth century origin and means 'king's island', referring to a piece of dry land that belonged to the king in the marshes that were once common in this part of the country. In 1174 the village was called Eya, meaning 'island', though by 1192 it had gained its more modern name of Kingesie. This leads historians to believe that the village is named after King Richard I of England. As is typical with villages on county borders it has changed counties several times in its history. Officially Kingsey is in Buckinghamshire, though it is considered by some,.
Village - a village is that the latter will have a church, and will therefore usually have been the worship centre of a parish. A village is traditionally distinguished from a town because a village lacks a regular market. There is much dispute over which is the largest village in England. Places claiming to be the largest include Cranleigh in Surrey, Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, both Haddenham and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, Braunton in Devon, Birchington in Kent, Horsforth in West Yorkshire, Street in Somerset, Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, Ruskington in Lincolnshire and Kidlington in Oxfordshire. In some parts of the United States, particularly New York and Vermont, the term "village" refers to a specific form of incorporated local government, similar to a city but with less authority and.
Aston Sandford - Sandford Aston Sandford is a small village in Buckinghamshire, England, about a mile east of Haddenham. The 'Aston' part of the village name is Anglo Saxon and means Eastern Estate. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the village was known as Cold Aston, and both it and Haddenham were owned by the same manor, suggesting that Aston got its name from being the farming estate to the east of Haddenham. The owner of both places in 1086 was listed as Manno the Breton. By 1199 the estate had been annexed by the Norman rulers and was placed into the extensive estates belonging to the descendants of Odo of Bayeux: the Sandfords. It was from this time that the village became known as Aston Sandford. The Nineteenth century parish.
Long Crendon - Long Crendon Long Crendon is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, about 3 miles west of Haddenham and 2 miles north west of Thame. The village has only been known as Long Crendon since the English Civil War. The "Long" prefix refers simply to the length of the village at that time, and was added to differentiate it from nearby Grendon Underwood. Previously it was simply known as Crendon. This name is Anglo Saxon and means Creoda's Hill (in 1086 it was listed in the Domesday Book as Crededone). The village has a long and illustrious history. The manor was once a great building that housed the Earls of Buckingham and over the years the various manorial estates in the village have passed through the hands of the Crown, Oxford University, the.
Kingswood, Buckinghamshire - Kingswood, Buckinghamshire Kingswood is a hamlet in the parish of Ludgershall, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the main A41 from Waddesdon to Bicester. The hamlet name refers to the nearby Bernwood Forest, an ancient woodland that was the property of the king, though it has since been completely deforested. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Halton, Buckinghamshire - Halton, Buckinghamshire Halton is a small village in Buckinghamshire, close to Wendover. It features a Royal Air Force (RAF) training station, RAF Halton. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Hardwick, Buckinghamshire - Hardwick, Buckinghamshire Hardwick is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about four miles north of Aylesbury. Hardwick is a common place name in England, of Anglo Saxon origin meaning 'livestock farm'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was known as Harduich. There is a large manor in Hardwick called 'Lillies'. It was extensively renovated in the Edwardian period and is a fine house today, which can be seen from miles around. Nearby Weedon is a hamlet in the parish of Hardwick..
Hitcham, Buckinghamshire - Hitcham, Buckinghamshire Hitcham was a village in Buckinghamshire, England. Today it is indistinguishable from the extended village of Burnham and doesn't appear on modern maps. It is located to the west of that village, adjacent to the common on which Burnham Beeches stands. The village name 'Hitcham' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Hycga's homestead'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Hucheham..
Horton, Buckinghamshire - Horton, Buckinghamshire Horton is a hamlet in the parish of Ivinghoe, in Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet name is a common one in England, and means 'dirty or muddy farm'. For other places in the world with the same name, see Horton. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Gibraltar, Buckinghamshire - Gibraltar, Buckinghamshire Gibraltar is a hamlet in the parish of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the modern main road that links Aylesbury with Thame. The hamlet is named after the British dependency of Gibraltar. In 2003, the public house in Gibraltar, called the Bottle and Glass, was gutted when the thatch of the pub roof caught fire following an electrical fault in the upper storey of the building..
Grove, Buckinghamshire - Grove, Buckinghamshire Grove is a tiny village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the border with Bedfordshire, just to the north of Mentmore. It is the size of some hamletss, but it is distinct as a village because it has its own parish church. The place name is fairly self explanatory, as it means 'grove', or a copse of trees. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Grova, and was considered a separate village even then. It has been suggested that Grove may once have been an important place of worship in ancient times, leading to its establishment as a separate parish. The reason for this suggestion is that the village sits on a conjunction of several ley lines, and its parish church.
Fawley, Buckinghamshire - Fawley, Buckinghamshire Fawley is a village in the south western corner of Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the border between Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, and is about seven miles west of Great Marlow. The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'fallow-coloured woodland clearing'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Falelie. There are two other places in the country called Fawley. Sir Bulstrode Whitlock, a prominent Member of Parliament in Cromwell's day was from Fawley. In 1642 he allowed soldiers fighting in the English Civil War to stay at the manor in Fawley, however they were quite raucous in their behaviour, and they completely destroyed the contents of the house. In 1684 the house was completely redesigned, following a design by Sir.
Ford, Buckinghamshire - Ford, Buckinghamshire Ford is a hamlet in the parish of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the south eastern corner of the main parish. The place name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and refers simply to the place where a stream crosses the main road via a ford. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Foscott, Buckinghamshire - Foscott, Buckinghamshire Foscott (also called Foxcote) was a village in Buckinghamshire, England, though it was demolished in the Twentieth century to make way for a reservoir. It was located just to the north of Maids Moreton. The village name was Anglo Saxon in origin, meaning 'Fox cottage'. The reservoir that Foscott was cleared for is called the Foxcote Reservoir..
Egypt, Buckinghamshire - Egypt, Buckinghamshire Egypt is a hamlet in the parish of Burnham, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the edge of Burnham Beeches, just to the north of Farnham Common. It is not known how the hamlet came to be known as Egypt, though it is most likely it was named after the country of Egypt in the Middle East..
Upton, Buckinghamshire - Upton, Buckinghamshire Upton is a hamlet in the parish of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the north of the main village, on the junction between the new road from Aylesbury to Thame, and the old road before it was rerouted. The hamlet name is a common one in England, and means 'higher farm', referring in this case to the hamlet's location at the top of an adjacent hill to Dinton. The hamlet is often confused with the village of Upton cum Chalvey, which is now in the unitary authority of Slough though used to be in Buckinghamshire. The latter name was altered in the Victorian period to allay confusion between the two places..
Dunsmore, Buckinghamshire - Dunsmore, Buckinghamshire Dunsmore is a hamlet in the parish of Ellesborough, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the hilltop of one of the Chiltern Hills, about 2 miles south of Wendover. It is one of the remotest places in the whole of Buckinghamshire, accessible only by two steep, single-track hillside lanes. The place name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means literally Dunna's moor. Today the village is extremely picturesque, surrounded on all sides by Forestry Commission land. However due to its location it is regularly cut off because of bad weather or bad road conditions, and retains its small community atmosphere. A central feature of the hamlet is the village pond. There are other English places called Dunsmore..
