Buckinghamshire

South Buckinghamshire Chiltern Wycombe Aylesbury Vale

Table of contents

1 Introduction 2 Towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire 3 Places of interest 4 Famous people from Bucks 5 External link

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.

Modern Buckinghamshire is divided into four districts: Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. It borders onto Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire, and Berkshire. In 1974 Buckinghamshire lost Slough and Eton to Berkshire, these areas have been administered under the unitary authorities of Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead since 1998. Milton Keynes district became a unitary authority in 1997, but remains part of the county for ceremonial purposes.

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 areas for London in the south.

The name Buckinghamshire is Anglo Saxon and means The district of the land belonging to the kinsmen of Bucca. Bucca, in this sense, would have been an Anglo Saxon individual of some prominence.

The heraldic crest for Buckinghamshire is a white swan in chains. This dates back to the Anglo Saxon period, when swans were bred in Buckinghamshire for the king's pleasure. That the swan is in chains illustrates that the swan is bound to the king, an ancient law that still applies to wild swans in the UK today. The herald was first used at the Battle of Agincourt by the Duke of Buckingham.

Towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire

The boundaries of Buckinghamshire have changed considerably over a number of years. Some of these are now part of neighbouring counties and unitary authorities, but once formed part of the traditional county of Buckinghamshire. Places that are no longer part of Buckinghamshire are listed in Italics.

• Addington, Adstock, Akeley, Amersham, Ascott, Ashendon, Asheridge, Ashley Green, Askett, Aston Abbotts, Aston Clinton, Aston Sandford, Astwood, Aylesbury
• Ballinger, Barton Hartshorn, Beachampton, Beaconsfield, Bedgrove, Bellingdon, Biddlesden, Bierton, Bishopstone, Bledlow, Bledlow Ridge, Bletchley, Boarstall, Booker, Botley, Botolph Claydon, Bourne End, Bourton, Boveney, Bow Brickhill, Boycott, Bradenham, Bradwell, Brill, Britwell, Broughton near Aylesbury, Broughton near Milton Keynes, Broughton Crossing, Buckingham, Buckland, Burcott near Bierton, Burcott near Wing, Burnham, Butlers Cross
• Cadmore, Caldecote, Caldicot, California, Calvert, Calverton, Castlethorpe, Chackmore, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter, Chalkshire, Chalvey, Charndon, Chartridge, Chearsley, Cheddington, Chenies, Chesham, Chesham Bois, Chetwode, Chicheley, Chilton, Chivery, Cholesbury, Cippenham, Clifton Reynes, Cold Brayfield, Coldmoorham, Coleshill, Colnbrook, Cooks Wharf, Cores End, Crafton, Creslow, Cublington, Cuddington
• Dadford, Dagnall, Datchet, Denham, Dinton, Ditton, Dorney, Dorton, Downley, Drayton Beauchamp, Drayton Parslow, Dunsmore, Dunton
• Easington, East Claydon, Eaton Bray, Edgcott, Edlesborough, Egypt, Ellesborough, Emberton, Eton, Eythrope
• Farnham Common, Farnham Royal, Fawley, Fenny Stratford, Filgrave, Fingest, Flackwell Heath, Fleet Marston, Ford, Foscot, Frieth, Frithsden, Fulmer
• Gawcott, Gayhurst, George Green, Gerrards Cross, Gibraltar, Granborough, Great Brickhill, Great Hampden, Great Horwood, Great Kimble, Great Kingshill, Great Linford, Great Marlow, Great Missenden, Great Woolstone, Green Hailey, Grendon Underwood, Grove
• Haddenham, Halton, Halton Camp, Hambleden, Handy Cross, Hanslope, Hardmead, Hardwick, Hartwell, Haversham, Hawridge, Hazlemere, Hedgerley & Dean, Hedsor, High Wycombe, Hillesden, Hitcham, Hoggeston, Hogshaw, Holmer Green, Horsenden, Horton near Eton, Horton near Ivinghoe, Hughenden, Hughenden Valley, Hulcott, Hundridge, Hyde Heath
• Ibstone, Ickford, Ilmer, Iver, Iver Heath, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston
• Jordans
• Kimble Wick, Kingsey, Kingswood
• Lacey Green, Lamport, Lane End, Langley Marish, Lathbury, Latimer, Lavendon, Leckhampstead, Ledborough, Ledburn, Lee, Lee Clump, Lenborough, Lillingstone Dayrell, Lillingstone Lovell, Linslade, Little Brickhill, Little Chalfont, Little Hampden, Little Horwood, Little Kimble, Little Kingshill, Little Linford, Little London, Little Marlow, Little Missenden, Little Woolstone, Littleworth, Long Crendon, Long Street, Longwick, Loosley Row, Loudwater, Loughton, Lower Bacombe, Lower Cadsden, Lower Pollicott, Lower Weald, Lower Winchendon, Ludgershall, Luffield Abbey
• Maids Moreton, Marlow, Marsh, Marsh Gibbon, Marsworth, Meadle, Medmenham, Mentmore, Middle Claydon, Middle Weald, Milton Keynes, Monks Risborough, Moulsoe, Mursley
• Naphill, Nash, Nash Lee, Nether Winchendon, Nettleden, New Zealand, Newport Pagnell, Newton Blossomville, Newton Longville, North Crawley, North Lee, North Marston, Northall
• Oakley, Olney, Oving, Owlswick
• Padbury, Pednor, Penn, Penn Street, Petsoe Manor, Pitchcott, Pitstone, Poundon, Preston Bissett, Prestwood, Princes Risborough
• Quainton, Quarrendon
• Radclive, Radnage, Ravenstone, Ringshall, Rowsham
• St Leonards, Saunderton, Seer Green, Shabbington, Shalstone, Shenley Brook End, Shenley Church End, Sherington, Shipton Lee, Shredding Green, Simpson, Singleborough, Slapton, Slough, Soulbury, Southcote, Speen, Stantonbury, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stoke Goldington, Stoke Hammond, Stoke Mandeville, Stoke Poges, Stokenchurch, Stone, Stony Stratford, Stowe, Swanbourne
• Taplow, Tattenhoe, Terrick, Thornborough, Thorney, Thornton, Tingewick, Tongwell, Towersey, Turville, Turweston, Twyford, Tylers Green, Tyringham
• Upper Bacombe, Upper Cadsden, Upper Pollicott, Upper Weald, Upper Winchendon, Upton, Upton cum Chalvey
• Verney Junction
• Waddesdon, Walters Ash, Walton near Aylesbury, Walton near Woburn Sands, Warrington, Water Eaton, Water Stratford, Watermead, Waterside, Wavendon, Weedon, Wendover, West Wycombe, Westbury, Westcott, Westlington, Weston Turville, Weston Underwood, Wexham, Whaddon, Wheeler End, Whitchurch, Whiteleaf, Widmer End, Willen, Winchmore Hill, Wing, Wingrave, Winslow, Woburn Sands, Wolverton, Wooburn, Woodham, Worminghall, Wotton Underwood, Woughton on the Green, Wraysbury

• Bletchley Park
• Boarstall Tower
• Buckinghamshire Railway Centre in Quainton
• Chequers Court
• Claydon House
• Cliveden
• Halton Hall
• Hartwell House
• Hughenden Manor
• Mentmore Towers
• Stowe Park
• Waddesdon Manor
• West Wycombe Caves
• Whiteleaf Cross

• Nancy Astor, society hostess, lived in Cliveden
• Nick Beggs, musician, is from Winslow
• Lynda Bellingham, actress, is from Aylesbury
• Cilla Black, television presenter, lives in Denham
• Enid Blyton, writer, lived in Beaconsfield
• Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII, had a house in Wendover
• Melanie Brown, musician, lives in Little Marlow
• John Craven, television presenter, lives in Princes Risborough
• Roald Dahl, writer, lived in Great Missenden
• Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, politician, lived in both High Wycombe and Beaconsfield
• Iain Duncan Smith, politician, lives in Swanbourne
• Noel Edmonds, television presenter, once lived in Weston Turville
• Edward the Confessor, king of England, had a palace in Brill
• T.S. Eliot, writer, lived in Marlow
• Noel Gallagher, musician, lives in Little Chalfont
• Sir John Gielgud, actor, was living in Aylesbury when he died
• John Hampden, politician, was from Great Hampden
• David Jason, actor, lives in Wendover
• Jerome K. Jerome, writer, lived in Marlow
• Howard Jones, musician, is from High Wycombe
• Jason "Jay" Kay, musician and frontman of Jamiroquai, lives in Princes Risborough
• Arthur Lasenby Liberty, merchant, was from Chesham
• John Milton, writer, lived in Chalfont St Giles
• Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer, was from Middle Claydon
• Mike Oldfield, musician, once lived in Little Chalfont
• Ozzy Osbourne, musician, has a house in Chalfont St Peter
• John Otway, musician, is from Aylesbury
• William Penn, politician, was from Penn
• Terry Pratchett, writer, was born in Beaconsfield
• Pauline Quirke, actress, lives in Beaconsfield
• Tim Rice, lyricist, is from Amersham
• Andy Riley, writer, is from Aylesbury
• Nathan Mayer Rothschild, banking pioneer, had houses in Ascott, Aston Clinton, Eythrope, Halton, Mentmore and Waddesdon
• Mary Shelley, writer, lived in Marlow
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer, lived in Marlow
• Jackie Stewart, racing driver, lives in Wendover
• Edmund Waller, poet, was from Amersham
• Roger of Wendover, chronicler, was from Wendover
• John Wyclif, theologian, lived in Ludgershall