Fulmer is a village and

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in south

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, England. The village has, along most of its northern border, a narrow green buffer from

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and its heavily wooded adjoining neighbouring villages of

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and Wexham. The village's name is derived from the

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for "mere or lake frequented by birds". It was recorded in 1198 as ''Fugelmere''. In the late 17th century the owners of the manor of Fulmer were forced to sell their house to their

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s because they had squandered their money and could not afford to pay them. The manor then passed into the hands of the

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. In the mid-19th century

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was grown at Moor Farm, known locally as "The Bog", (now Low Farm) by Richard Whiting Bradbery, the son of William Bradbery, the first British watercress pioneer who had a large cress farm at

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, Hertfordshire. Richard is buried in St James’ churchyard, Fulmer, with his wife Hannah. Fulmer Chase on Stoke Common Road is a former home of the Wills tobacco family and was used as a military hospital during World War II. Fulmer is close to

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and several films have been shot in the village, including '' Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines'' and '' Sleepy Hollow''.

Demography

Education

Fulmer Infant School is in Fulmer. Beehive and Honeycomb Nursery in Fulmer. International School of Creative Arts is in the area. Teikyo School United Kingdom is in the area.

Notable people

Tess Daly Helen Elizabeth "Tess" Daly (born 29 March 1969) is an English television presenter and former model. Since 2004, she has co-presented the BBC One dancing competition show '' Strictly Come Dancing''. Early life Helen Elizabeth Daly was born o ...

Marmaduke Darrell Marmaduke Darrell or Darrel or Dayrell (died 1632) was an English courtier, accountant, and naval administrator. Darrell's estates were at Fulmer in South Bucks, Buckinghamshire. He was a Clerk of the Avery to Elizabeth I. Darrell kept an accou ...

Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie ( ; born Angelina Jolie Voight, , June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Angelina Jolie, numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards ...

(lived here) *

Vernon Kay Vernon Charles Kay (born 28 April 1974) is an English broadcaster and former model. He presented Channel 4's ''T4'' (2000–2005) and has presented various television shows for ITV, including '' All Star Family Fortunes'' (2006–2015), ''Ju ...

Yasser Al-Habib Sheikh Yasser al-Habib (; born 20 January 1979) is a Kuwaiti Shia scholar, and the head of the London-based Mahdi Servants Union, as well as Al-Muhassin mosque in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and the writer of '' The Lady of Heaven''. Al-Habib's w ...

David Newbery David Michael Garrood Newbery, CBE, FBA (born 1 June 1943), is a British economist who has been Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge since 1988. He specialises in the field of energy economics, and he writes on the reg ...

(was born here) * J. Peter Robinson (was born here) *

John Sulston Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' in 2002 with ...

, Nobel Laureate (was born here) *

Michael York (actor) Michael York (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English film, television, and stage actor. After performing on stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's ''Romeo ...

(was born here)

Sport and recreation

Cricket has been played in the village from at least the first half of the 19th century. The sporting magazine,

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, carried an article on 6 August 1843 which suggested that the Vicar, Revd Butterfield, had 'formed a club between the youths of that village, and presented them with a stock of bats, balls and stumps'. Hitherto, the article continued, the youths had been wont to 'congregate in clusters to pursue the disreputable game of pitch and toss', especially on the Sabbath. How long the Vicar's club endured isn't clear, but the late nineteenth century saw a re-foundation of the game. A local village team existed in 1886 but the current club was officially founded in 1895. Fulmer Cricket Club play their games at King George's Field, named as a memorial to

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. Local resident and noted cricketer

Denis Compton Denis Charles Scott Compton (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English multi-sportsman. As a cricketer he played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole career with Middlesex. As a footballer, he played as a winger and spent most of his ca ...

opened the new clubhouse in 1988.

References

External links

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