Aylesbury
Aylesbury | |
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Kingsbury, Aylesbury | |
Location within Buckinghamshire | |
Population | 63,273 (2021)[1] Urban area 94,238[2] (Former) Aylesbury Vale district 174,137[3] |
OS grid reference | SP818138 |
• London | 36 miles (58 km) |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | AYLESBURY |
Postcode district | HP18-HP21 |
Dialling code | 01296 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Aylesbury (/ˈeɪlzbəri/ AYLZ-bər-ee) is the county town of Buckinghamshire, South East England. It is home to the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery and the Waterside Theatre.[4][5] It is located in central Buckinghamshire, midway between High Wycombe and Milton Keynes.
Aylesbury was awarded Garden Town status in 2017. The housing target for the town is set to grow with 16,000 homes set to be built by 2033.[6]
Etymology
The town name is of Old English origin. It is first recorded in the form Æglesburg in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a text which took its present form in the later ninth century. The word Ægles is a personal name in the genitive case, meaning "Ægel's" and burg means "fortification". Thus the name once meant "Fort of Ægel" — though who Ægel was is not recorded.[7] Nineteenth-century speculation that that the name contained the Welsh word eglwys meaning "a church" (from Latin ecclesia)[8] has been discredited.
History
Excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle portrays Aylesbury as being captured from the Britons by one Cuthwulf following the
The town includes an
In 1450, a religious institution called the Guild of St Mary was founded in Aylesbury by John Kemp, Archbishop of York. Known popularly as the Guild of Our Lady it became a meeting place for local dignitaries and a hotbed of political intrigue. The guild was influential in the outcome of the Wars of the Roses. Its premises at the Chantry in Church Street, Aylesbury, are still there, though today the site is used mainly for retail.
Aylesbury was declared the new county town of
The town played a large part in the
On 18 March 1664, Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland was created 1st Earl of Ailesbury[n 2].
The grade II*
Aylebury's heraldic crest[12] displays the Aylesbury duck, which has been bred here since the birth of the Industrial Revolution, although only one breeder of true Aylesbury ducks, Richard Waller, remains today.[13]
The town also received international publicity in 1963 when the culprits responsible for the Great Train Robbery (1963) were tried at Aylesbury Rural District Council Offices in Walton Street and sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court. The robbery took place at Bridego Bridge, a railway bridge at Ledburn, about six miles (9.7 km) from the town.
A notable institution is
The town is the birthplace of the Paralympic Games. During the
The
The Aylesbury duck
In the 18th century selective breeding of white common ducks led to a white domestic duck, generally known as the English White. Since at least the 1690s ducks had been farmed in Aylesbury, and made Aylesbury known throughout England and beyond. They were bred and brought up by poor people, and sent to London by the weekly carriers. They went on to be known as the Aylesbury duck.
The duck business in Aylesbury went into decline in the 19th century. By the time Beatrix Potter's 1908 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck—about an Aylesbury duck although set in Cumbria—caused renewed interest in the breed, the Aylesbury duck was in steep decline. The duckers of Buckinghamshire had generally failed to introduce technological improvements such as the incubator, and inbreeding had dangerously weakened the breed. Meanwhile, the cost of duck food had risen fourfold over the 19th century, and from 1873 onwards competition from Pekin and Pekin cross ducks was undercutting Aylesbury ducks at the marketplace. The First World War devastated the remaining duckers of Buckinghamshire. By the end of the war small-scale duck rearing in the Aylesbury Vale had vanished, with duck raising dominated by a few large duck farms. Shortages of duck food in the Second World War caused further disruption to the industry, and almost all duck farming in the Aylesbury Vale ended. A 1950 "Aylesbury Duckling Day" campaign to boost the reputation of the Aylesbury duck had little effect; by the end of the 1950s the last significant farms had closed, other than a single flock in Chesham owned by Mr L. T. Waller, and by 1966 there were no duck breeders remaining in Aylesbury. As of 2021 the Waller family's farm in Chesham remains in business, the last surviving flock of pure Aylesbury meat ducks in the country. Although, there are still many hobbyists who keep the breed.
The Aylesbury duck remains a symbol of the town of Aylesbury.
Demography
The town's population has grown from 28,000 in the 1960s to almost 72,000 in 2011[1][15] due in the main to new housing developments, including many London overspill housing estates, built to ease pressure on the capital. Indeed, Aylesbury, to a greater extent than many English market towns, saw substantial areas of its own heart demolished in the 1950s/1960s as 16th–18th century houses (many in good repair) were demolished to make way for new, particularly retail, development.[citation needed]
Aylesbury's population in the ten-year period since 2001 has grown by two thousand primarily related to the development of new housing estates which will eventually cater for eight thousand people on the north side, between the A41 (Akeman Street) and the A413 and the expansion of Fairford Leys estate.
According to the 2011 Census, the religious groupings in Aylesbury were: Christianity (55.7%), no religion (26.9%), Islam (8.3%), Hinduism (1.4%), other (0.4%). 6.7% of respondents did not state their religion.[2]
Geography
Neighbourhoods
Housing estates in or neighbourhoods of the modern Aylesbury include:
- Bedgrove
- Berryfields
- Broughton
- Buckingham Park
- Coppice
- Crown Leys
- Elm Farm
- Elmhurst
- Fairford Leys
- Haydon Hill
- Hawkslade Farm
- Kingsbrook
- Mandeville Estate
- Mandeville Park
- Meadowcroft
- Prebendal Farm
- Quarrendon
- Queens Park
- Shakespeare Estate
- Southcourt
- Stoke Farm
- Stoke Grange
- Walton Court
- Watermead
- The Willows
Farms and hamlets
Aylesbury has also been extended to completely surround the hamlets and former farms at:
Future developments
Distinct whole areas that have a notably high property price in the town are
Elevations, soil and geology
Aylesbury is immediately southeast of the upper
The town centre's higher terrain is accurately described by Samuel Lewis in 1848 as a "gentle eminence".[9]
The county's oldest rocks of
Culture and community
The town centre is home to many pubs and bars. The Queens Park Centre, which is the UK's largest independent arts centre is also based in the town centre.[20]
The local newspaper is the Bucks Herald, which started publishing in January 1832.
Local radio stations was named
BBC local radio station that broadcast to the town is BBC Three Counties Radio on 94.7 FM.
Local news and television programmes is provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian. Television signals are received from the Oxford TV transmitter.
The Bourg Walk Bridge (also called the Southcourt Bridge or the Roberts Bridge after a local councillor) opened in March 2009 connecting Southcourt to Aylesbury town centre. The focus of the footbridge is a central concrete pillar with four suspension cables supporting the structure. This bridge forms a central part of the Aylesbury Hub project. Bourg Walk was nominated and won the Engineering Excellence Award 2009 awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers – South East England branch.[29]
Governance
Arms of Aylesbury Town Council | ||
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Shield Gyronny of six Gules and Sable a Mute Swan rousant proper on a Chief Or a Saxon Crown Gules. | | |
Supporters | On the dexter side a Buck proper gorged with a Chain Or pendent therefrom a Hexagon Argent charged with a Garb Gules banded Or and on the sinister side a Stag also proper gorged with a Chain pendent therefrom a like Hexagon charged with a Crescent Sable. | |
Motto | Semper Prorsum | |
Badge | An Oval gyronny of six Gules and Sable charged with a Saxon Crown Or issuant therefrom a Mount thereon an Aylesbury Duck proper the whole environed by a Garland of Beech Leaves Vert. | |
Granted to borough council on 5 April 1964. Transferred to successor parish council on 3 April 2002.[30] |
There are two tiers of local government covering the town, at parish and unitary authority level: Aylesbury Town Council, based at Aylesbury Town Hall at 5 Church Street, and Buckinghamshire Council, which is also based in Aylesbury, having its headquarters at The Gateway on Gatehouse Road.
Aylesbury Town Council is the parish council for the town. As at May 2021 it comprises 25
The town council also elects the town mayor from the serving town councillors every year. The process culminates in a formal "Mayor Making" ceremony where the new mayor takes over from the preceding mayor. The role of mayor is mainly a ceremonial role representing the town at various events and acting as an ambassador for the town.
Administrative history
Aylesbury was made a borough by a charter from Mary I in 1554, which gave the town the right to elect two members of parliament and to establish a council to govern itself. The right to establish a council was opposed by the prominent local landowner Thomas Pakington, and it seems likely that this element of the charter was not put into effect at that time. In 1650, following the English Civil War, the town did establish a degree of self-government under the auspices of the 1554 charter. However, in 1664, in the aftermath of the Restoration, the town's short-lived council was abolished and the rights it had held reverted to the Pakington family which had exercised them prior to the civil war. Thereafter the town was governed by its vestry in the same way as most rural areas, although it remained a parliamentary constituency.[32]
In 1849 a local board of health was established to govern the town. This board was replaced by Aylesbury Urban District Council in 1894, which was subsequently given municipal borough status on 1 January 1917, becoming Aylesbury Borough Council. The borough council was awarded a coat of arms in 1964.[30]
In 1974 Aylesbury Borough Council merged with several neighbouring districts to become Aylesbury Vale. No successor parish was initially created for Aylesbury, and it became an unparished area, directly administered by Aylesbury Vale District Council. The civil parish of Aylesbury was re-established in 2001, with its parish council taking the name Aylesbury Town Council.[33] From 2001 to 2020 there were therefore three tiers of local government covering the town, at parish, district, and county level.
Aylesbury Vale District Council was abolished in 2020, merging with
Education
Aylesbury is home to one college of general further education (Aylesbury College[34] on Oxford Road), three grammar schools, two community upper schools, an academy, a university technical college and a host of primary schools. The secondary schools are:
- Aylesbury Grammar School (boys only)
- Aylesbury High School (girls only)
- The Aylesbury Vale Academy
- Buckinghamshire University Technical College
- The Grange School
- Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School
- Mandeville School
There are also the following
- The PACE Centre
- Pebble Brook School
- Stocklake Park Community School, formerly Park School
The Aylesbury Vale Secondary Support Centre
Aylesbury Music Centre is a large educational establishment, which has its own premises adjoining Aylesbury High School and rivals the Royal College of Music, having produced members of national orchestras.[citation needed]
Health
Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital is a private hospital specialising in spinal cord injury.[37]
Aylesbury has provisions for mental health therapy and treatments at the Tindal Centre on Bierton Road. The Tindal Centre closed in early 2014 and Mental Health therapy and treatments along with Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Team's moved across the road to the new purpose-built hospital the Whiteleaf Centre. The former site of Tindal Centre has been transformed into a new housing development Bierton Place which has maintained the architecture of the original building and enhanced its beauty
Trade and industry
Traditionally the town was a commercial centre with a
15th century
By 1477 flour was being ground in the town for surrounding parishes. By the modern period this had grown into a huge established industry: the last
17th century – lace making
In 1672 poor children in Buckinghamshire were taught to make lace as a way to make a living. Bucks lace as it became known quickly became very sought after and production boomed as the lace was mainly made by poor women and children. The lace-making industry had died out by Victorian times, however, as new machine-made lace became cheaper.
In 1764 Euclid Neale opened his clockmaking workshop in Aylesbury. In the 18th century, he was one of the best clock makers in the country.
19th century – canals
In 1814, the Aylesbury arm of the Grand Union Canal from Marsworth was opened bringing major industry to the town for the first time. At the same time the Wendover arm was built leading to nearby Wendover.
20th century – motor manufacture
From 1919 until 1925 the Cubit Engineering Works on Bicester Road was a volume manufacturer of motor vehicles. Approximately 3,000 cars were built, but a somewhat slow and heavy design could not survive the onslaught from cheap American competition. Their robust design and high ground clearance made them popular in less developed parts of the British Empire which lacked paved roads like Australia and South Africa.[38] The works have been demolished for a domestic housing development. The marque is commemorated by Cubitt Street (and Edge Street) which traverses the old works.
By the late 20th century, the printers and bookbinders, Hazell, Watson and Viney and the Nestlé dairy were the two main employers in the town, employing more than half the total population. These factories have long since been demolished and replaced by a Tesco supermarket which opened in 1994, and a housing development, respectively.
21st century
Today, the town is still a major commercial centre and the market still meets on the cobbles of the old Market Square four days a week. Nestle and Hazell, Watson and Viney and US automotive parts producer TRW have gone – the last left the town in 2006. However three major industrial and commercial centres make sure the town has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.[citation needed]
A £150 million Arla Foods 'megadairy' opened just off the A41 in nearby Aston Clinton in November 2013, roughly 3+1⁄2 mi (6 km) from the town centre and is a major employer in the area.[39] Traffic improvement measures were paid for by Arla in order to reduce the impact of congestion and pollution.[40]
Sport and leisure
Aylesbury has two local semi-professional football teams, Aylesbury Vale Dynamos F.C. which plays at Haywood Way and Aylesbury United F.C. which currently shares a ground with Chesham United. There is a strong cricket club in the town, that was formed in 1837 with success in the 1950s and 1980s and is again emerging as one of the strong clubs in mid- to north Buckinghamshire. Since 2013, Aylesbury has been host to a free 5 km run called the Aylesbury Parkrun. Aylesbury is represented in Rugby Union by Aylesbury Rugby Football Club, situated at Ostler's Field in the nearby village of Weston Turville; 'The Ducks' play in the 7th tier of English Rugby.
Aylesbury's recent sporting success comes in Gymnastics with the Aylesbury Gymnastics Academy, training out of the lynx gym centre, producing two Olympians and both coming away with bronze medals in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games for Great Britain. [41]
Transport
Rail
The town is served by
Railways came to Aylesbury early, in 1839 when the
A rail scheme to extend passenger services northwestwards to a new station, Aylesbury Vale Parkway, was completed in December 2008.[45] This is sited on the formerly goods-only line towards Quainton at the point where the line crosses the A41 near Berryfields Farm on the north-west outskirts of the town, some 2.25 miles (3.62 km) north of the main Aylesbury station. This area is to be known as Berryfields, a major development area and will include park and ride facilities for Aylesbury.
A further expansion of rail services to a new
Until then connections are available to Oxford and Birmingham by changing at Princes Risborough.Roads
Aylesbury is served by the A41 from London to Birkenhead, which becomes the M40 however at Bicester 13 miles (21 km) west (by north) of Aylesbury. The A413 and A418 roads also run through the town. The M40 motorway at junction 9 is 14.7 miles (23.7 km) away and the M25 motorway is just over 21 miles (34 km)'s drive.
Buses
Aylesbury is served by Aylesbury bus station. In 2006, work commenced on the public transport hub, a scheme comprising a one-way loop of bus lanes around the town's inner ring road, which includes improvements to the connectivity between bus and rail services. The first two phases of this scheme were completed in 2007, providing new bus lanes on Exchange Street, New Street, Friarage Road and White Hill, and also opened up High Street to buses. The final two phases, including the Bourg Walk Bridge and Station Boulevard were officially opened in April 2009.[48]
The town is served by Buckinghamshire's first 'Rainbow Routes' network of bus services. The colour-coded routes were set up by
Cycling demonstration town
In 2005, the town won £1million funding to be one of six
Cycle Aylesbury, the team created to undertake the Cycling Demonstration town work, recently opened the first of their Gemstone Cycleways, which are a network of routes running from Aylesbury town centre to various locations around the town, including Stone, Bierton, Wendover and Watermead. A second brochure/magazine was published to accompany the routes, along with a redesigned website, CycleAylesbury.co.uk.
Notable people
Aylesbury is or has been home to a whole range of notable people. In the latter part of the 20th century, the main maternity unit in the district was located in Aylesbury at the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital; hence a large number of people were born in Aylesbury who may not have had any other association with the town. For a full list see People from Aylesbury. In alphabetic order of surname, those who live, or have lived in Aylesbury include:
- Michael Apted (1941–2021), film director and producer [53]
- Benjamin Bates (1716–1790), physician, art connoisseur and socialite.[54]
- Lynda Bellingham (1948–2014), actress, broadcaster and author.[55]
- Nick Blood (born 1982), actor
- Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), English composer and communist, born in the town[56]
- Ernest Bullock (1890–1979), organist, composer and teacher; died in Aylesbury[57]
- Brendan Cole (born 1976), New Zealand ballroom dancer
- Aylesbury Prison[58]
- Barns Courtney (born 1990), singer and songwriter, born in Aylesbury
- Sir Alexander Croke (1758–1842), British judge and Colonial Administrator in Nova Scotia [59]
- Catherine Anne Davies (born ca.1990), stage name The Anchoress, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter; grew up in Aylesbury from age 4.
- Greg Day (born 1957), playwright, born in Aylesbury [60]
- Liam Gillick (born 1964) artist, born in Aylesbury
- Martin Grech (born 1982), singer, songwriter and musician [61]
- John Hampden (ca.1595–1643), politician and Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, lived in Hartwell House.
- John Junkin (1930–2006), TV performer and scriptwriter, died in Aylesbury [62]
- Andrea Leadsom (born 1963), Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire; Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change; candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2016
- Samantha Lewthwaite (born 1983), terrorist, grew up in Aylesbury [63]
- Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), Irish politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist; inmate Aylesbury prison in 1916.[64]
- John Otway (born 1952), singer-songwriter[65]
- Nicholas Parsons (1923-2020), TV presenter and actor, lived in Aylesbury and died at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.[66]
- Charles Pearson (1847–1917), a pioneer Anglican missionary in Uganda [67]
- Sir James Clark Ross (1800–1862), Arctic naval explorer, died in Aylesbury [68]
- Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), a poet and author and former boxer [69]
- William of Sherwood (ca.1200 – ca.1272), medieval English scholastic philosopher, logician and teacher & rector of Aylesbury.[70]
- Mike Smith (1943–2008), musician, of the Dave Clark Five lived in Aylesbury [71]
- Pete Trewavas (born 1959), musician, member of Marillion
- John Wilkes (1725–1797), a radical journalist and politician; MP for Aylesbury 1757 & 1761, lived at Prebendal House in the town [72]
Sport
- Emmerson Boyce (born 1979), footballer, born in Aylesbury
- Jennifer Gadirova & Jessica Gadirova, (twins, born 2004), Team GB gymnasts, won Bronze at the Tokyo Olympics.[73]
- Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), neurologist , founded the Stoke Mandeville Games, became the Paralympic Games, lived and died in the town
- Matt Phillips (born 1991), footballer, born in Aylesbury [74]
- Notts County Ladies, Birmingham City, and Manchester Cityfootball player was born and brought up in Aylesbury.
Popular culture
A live music nightclub in Aylesbury was prominent in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and renamed the
The rock band Marillion have a close association with Aylesbury. They originally formed there, with the band's first single, 1982's "Market Square Heroes", taking its title inspiration from Aylesbury's Market Square. The band continue to be based in the area, with their Racket Records studio still close to Aylesbury, and in 2007 the band performed together with their original lead singer, Fish, for the first time in 19 years at Aylesbury.[77]
Aylesbury Methodist Church holds an annual organ recital, which attracts prominent national organists. The Roald Dahl Children's Gallery in Church Street, Aylesbury, is a children's museum in honour of novelist Roald Dahl that opened on 23 November 1996.[78] Aylesbury hosts the Roald Dahl Festival, a procession of giant puppets based on his characters, on 2 July.[citation needed]
Comedian and actor Ronnie Barker (1929–2005) began his acting career in the town in the late 1940s and in September 2010, almost five years after his death, a bronze statue of him was unveiled by actor David Jason and Barker's one time co-star Ronnie Corbett (the other half of the Two Ronnies) on a new public place in Exchange Street.[79]
Shown in productions
Scenes from the film A Clockwork Orange were filmed in Friars Square in Aylesbury but did not make it to the final cut. This is the 'Librarian Scene' where outtakes from the shoot and rehearsal can be seen in Alison Castle's The Stanley Kubrick Archives published by Taschen. The opening scene, in which the droogs beat up an elderly Irishman, is mistakenly cited as being filmed in the underpass linking Friars Square Shopping Centre with the railway station. However, Christiane Kubrick's book Stanley Kubrick – A Life in Pictures states that the underpass in the film has a different shape to the one in Aylesbury and these sequences were actually filmed in Wandsworth.[80]
The County Court building and Aylesbury Market Square regularly feature in the BBC Television series Judge John Deed.
Twin town
Aylesbury is twinned with the French town of Bourg-en-Bresse, 267 mi (430 km) east of Paris.[81]
Closest cities, towns and villages
Gallery
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Church of St Mary, Aylesbury – Grade I listed church[82]
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The Old Grammar School, now museum and other buildings, Church Street, Aylesbury
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Church Street – detail
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Bucks 'New' County offices
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Blue Leanie, office block of Lloyds Bank.
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15th century King's Head Inn
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Beer garden of King's Head Inn
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Hobgoblin Inn
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Part of Aylesbury Vale taken from the top of Coombe Hill, looking towards Aylesbury – the town's shape is visible.
Freedom of the Town
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Town of Aylesbury.
Individuals
- Freda Roberts: 25 April 2016.
- Ellen White: 25 April 2016.
See also
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ Previously the county town of Buckinghamshire was Buckingham
- ^ With subsidiary titles in the Peerage of England: Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, and Baron Bruce, of Skelton in the County of York.
- ^ Govier was born at Oakley and was the etching demonstrator at the Royal College of Art.
- ^ "This stone has above: freely draining lime-rich loamy soils" which forms 3.7% of English soil according to the Soilscape source
- ^ Specifically described in the source national map as "Slowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soils" (therefore of medium fertility) which forms 20% of English soil
- ^ has a Prison though it has moved locations two or three times
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External links
- Aylesbury Town Council
- Aylesbury Vale District Council Archived 11 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 72. .
- Aylesbury in the Domesday Book
- Aylesbury.info Regional Website