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List Of Civil Parishes In Buckinghamshire
This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. There are 221 civil parishes. Buckinghamshire (unitary authority area) Part of the former High Wycombe Municipal Borough is unparished. Population figures are unavailable for some of the smallest parishes. Milton Keynes The whole of the borough is parished. Notes # Formerly Amersham Rural District # Formerly Aylesbury Municipal Borough: unparished area 1974-2001 # Formerly Aylesbury Rural District # Formerly Beaconsfield Urban District # Formerly Bletchley Urban District # Formerly Buckingham Municipal Borough # Formerly Buckingham Rural District # Formerly Chesham Urban District # Formerly Eton Rural District # Formerly High Wycombe Municipal Borough # Formerly Marlow Urban District # Formerly Newport Pagnell Rural District # Formerly Newport Pagnell Urban District # Formerly Wing Rural District # Formerly Winslow Rural District # Formerly Wolverton Urban District [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the Parish (Church of England), ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected Parish councils in England, parish councils to take on the secular functions of the vestry, parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population List of the most populous civil parishes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aston Clinton
Aston Clinton is a historic village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The village lies at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, between the Wendover and Aylesbury arms of the Grand Union Canal. Surrounding towns include Wendover to the south, Aylesbury to the west, and Tring to the east - across the nearby county border with Hertfordshire. History It is believed that the village started at the crossing of two Roman roads, Akeman Street and Icknield Way, both of which are still main roads in the village. After the fall of the Roman Empire, it became a Saxon settlement and remains of a Saxon cemetery were found during the construction of the Aston Clinton Bypass. Before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the settlement was probably held under patronage of King Edward the Confessor. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, where in Old English it was called ''Estone'', which means "eastern estate". The ''manor'', later to be known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wycombe Rural District
Wycombe Rural District was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England. Origins The district had its origins in the Wycombe Poor Law Union, which had been created in 1835, covering High Wycombe and several surrounding parishes. In 1872 sanitary districts were established, giving public health and local government responsibilities for rural areas to the existing boards of guardians of poor law unions. The Wycombe Rural Sanitary District therefore covered the area of the poor law union except for the town of High Wycombe, which was a municipal borough (officially called Chepping Wycombe until 1946) and so became its own urban sanitary district. The Wycombe Rural Sanitary District was administered from Wycombe Union Workhouse, which had been built in 1843 in open countryside in the parish of Saunderton, nearly five miles north-west of High Wycombe. Under the Local Government Act 1894, rural sanitary districts became rural distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bledlow-cum-Saunderton
Bledlow-cum-Saunderton is a civil parish in the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire, England. It contains the villages of Bledlow, Bledlow Ridge and Saunderton and the hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ... of Crownfield, Forty Green, Holly Green, Pitch Green, Rout's Green, Saunderton Lee and Skittle Green. It had a population of 2,469 according to the 2011 census. References Bledlow Parish Church Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire {{Buckinghamshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bierton With Broughton
Bierton is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about half a mile northeast of the town of Aylesbury. It is mainly a farming parish. Together with the hamlets of Broughton, Kingsbrook, Broughton Crossing and Burcott it historically formed the civil parish of Bierton with Broughton within Aylesbury Vale district and form part of the Aylesbury Urban Area, but in 2020 the parish was broken into three, with Bierton becoming its own parish. History A substantial Belgic settlement once occupied the site of the village with an extensive ditched enclosure. Excavations in 1979 detected four phases of occupation. The ditches were deliberately filled in the first century and little is visible today. The village name was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Bortone'' and means "farmstead near a stronghold" in modern English. The development of Bierton as a village was hampered by its being a linear settlement along the last road leading from Aylesbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biddlesden
Biddlesden is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in north-west Buckinghamshire, England on the boundary with Northamptonshire. It is about east-north-east of Brackley, Northamptonshire and north-west of Buckingham. The River Great Ouse forms part of the western boundary of the parish, separating the village from Northamptonshire. The ancient royal forest of Whittlewood extended to the northern edge of the village. History The village toponym is derived from the Old English for either "house in a valley" or "Byttel's valley". In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village is recorded as ''Betesdene''. In 1147 Ernald de Bosco founded the Cistercian Biddlesden Abbey. In 1315, the village was granted a temporary charter to hold a weekly market. When the abbey was seized on behalf of Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was assessed to be earning in excess of £175 annually in rents and tithes. Although the abbey continued after this time as liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Bucks
South Bucks was one of four local government districts in the non-metropolitan county of Buckinghamshire, in South East England. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, by the amalgamation of the area of Beaconsfield Urban District with part of Eton Rural District. The district was originally named Beaconsfield; it was renamed to South Bucks on 1 April 1980, following the passing of a resolution by the district council. The name was formally 'South Bucks' rather than 'South Buckinghamshire'. The district was abolished on 31 March 2020 and its area is now administered by the unitary Buckinghamshire Council. :''See List of civil parishes in South Bucks.'' Transport A large part of the district was sandwiched between the M40 and M4 motorways, both of which had junctions within the district. The major M40/ M25 interchange is located near Gerrards Cross and is the M25's only junction in the district. South Bucks contained the greatest length ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaconsfield Urban District
The town of Beaconsfield formed a local government district in the administrative counties of England, administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England, from 1850 to 1974. It was administered as a Local Board of Health, local board district from 1850 to 1894, and as an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district from 1894 to 1974. Origins The parish of Beaconsfield was declared to be a local board district on 15 July 1850. Under the Local Government Act 1894, local board districts became urban districts on 31 December 1894. Beaconsfield Urban District Council held its first meeting on 4 January 1895, when John Rolfe was elected the first chairman of the council, having been the last chairman of the Beaconsfield Local Board. Premises The first meeting of Beaconsfield Urban District Council was held at the home of one of the councillors, William Harding, on Windsor End, which is also where the old local board had met. It was decided at the first meeting that more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield ( ) is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, northwest of central London and southeast of Aylesbury. Three other towns are within : Gerrards Cross, Amersham and High Wycombe. The town is adjacent to the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has Georgian architecture, Georgian, neo-Georgian style (Great Britain), neo-Georgian and Tudor Revival architecture, Tudor revival high street architecture, known as the Old Town. It is known for the Bekonscot, first model village in the world and the National Film and Television School. Beaconsfield was Britain's richest town (based on an average house price of £684,474) in 2008. In 2011, it had the highest proportion in the UK of £1 million-plus homes for sale (at 47%, compared to 3.5% nationally). History and description The parish comprises Beaconsfield town and land mainly given over arable land. Some beech forest remains to supply an established beech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beachampton
Beachampton is a village and civil parish beside the River Great Ouse in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about east of Buckingham and a similar distance west of Milton Keynes. History The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "home farm by a stream". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as ''Bechentone''. Parts of the village stand on high ground, but most of the village is prone to regular flooding by the stream that runs through the village, a tributary of the River Ouse. The family name ''Beachampton'' originates in this village, and was first recorded in manorial records in 1175 when Osmer de Beachampton was a tenant here. There is no documentary evidence for the tradition that Hall Farm in Beachampton was the home of Catherine Parr when she was married to King Henry VIII. Beachampton Hall, a Grade II* listed manor house, has elements dating from the 15th century. The present house was probably built by the Pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barton Hartshorn
Barton Hartshorn is a civil parish about southwest of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire, within the Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority area. Its southern boundary is a brook called the Birne, and this and the parish's western boundary form part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire. At the 2011 Census the population of the parish was included in the civil parish of Chetwode The toponym "Barton" is derived from the Old English for "Barley Farm", and is a common place name in England. In the 11th century it was recorded as ''Bertone''.Page, 1927, pages 147–149 In the 15th century it was recorded as ''Barton Hertishorne'' and ''Beggars Barton'', and in the 16th century it was ''Little Barton''. "Hartshorn" comes from a separate hamlet in the same parish and is thought to refer to the shape of the land locally: it lies in the shape of a deer's horn. Manor Before the Norman Conquest of England Wilaf, a thegn of Earl Leofwine Godwinson, held the manor. The Domesday Book of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unparished Area
In England, an unparished area is an area that is not covered by a civil parish (the lowest level of local government, not to be confused with an ecclesiastical parish). Most urbanised districts of England are either entirely or partly unparished. Many towns and some cities in otherwise rural districts are also unparished areas and therefore no longer have a town council or city council, and are instead directly managed by a higher local authority such as a district or county council. Until the mid-nineteenth century there had been many areas that did not belong to any parish, known as extra-parochial areas. Acts of Parliament between 1858 and 1868 sought to abolish such areas, converting them into parishes or absorbing them into neighbouring parishes. After 1868 there were very few extra-parochial areas left; those remaining were mostly islands, such as Lundy, which did not have a neighbouring parish into which they could be absorbed. Modern unparished areas (also termed "n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
