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Tingewick
Tingewick is a village and civil parish about west of Buckingham in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is bounded to the north by the River Great Ouse, to the east by a tributary of the Great Ouse, to the west by the county boundary with Oxfordshire and to the south by field boundaries. The village was formerly on the A421 but from 1998 has been bypassed by a dual carriageway. The parish comprises about of mainly arable farmland and pasture with some woodland. Part of the village is a Conservation Area and a number of the 450 dwellings are listed buildings. History The remains of a Roman villa provide evidence of early habitation in the parish.Page, 1927, pages 249-251 It is about northeast of the village, about from the river and lies east of Tingewick Mill.Pevsner, 1960, page 269 The villa was partly excavated in 1860–62. The toponym is derived from the Old English for "Teoda's dwelling". The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckingham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Buckingham () is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 by Greg Smith (British politician), Greg Smith, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative. History The Parliamentary Borough of Buckingham sent two MPs to the House of Commons after its creation in 1542. That was reduced to one MP by the Representation of the People Act 1867. The Borough was abolished altogether by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and it was transformed into a large county division, formally named the North or Buckingham Division of Buckinghamshire. It was one of three divisions formed from the undivided three-member Parliamentary County of Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Buckinghamshire, the other two being the Mid or Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Aylesbury Division and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
