Chetwode
Chetwode | |
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Church and Priory of SS. Mary and Nicholas | |
Location within Buckinghamshire | |
Population | 173 (2011 Census including Barton Hartshorn)[1] |
OS grid reference | SP6429 |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Buckingham |
Postcode district | MK18 |
Dialling code | 01280 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Chetwode (
Manor
There is a
Priory and parish church
In 1244 Sir Ralphe de Norwich founded an Augustinian priory at Chetwode. In 1460, owing to its poverty, the priory was dissolved and annexed to the nearby Nutley Abbey in Long Crendon. This led to the first recognition of Chetwode as a village rather than just a priory.
The
A plan of the arrangements of the church and priory cloister in the 16th-century shows the development of Priory House.[4]
Economic history
The parish's
In 1899 the Great Central Railway opened its main line to London through the southwestern part of the parish. The nearest station was Finmere for Buckingham, which was just over the Oxfordshire county boundary on the main road between Buckingham and Bicester and just over 1 mile (1.6 km) from Chetwode. The station was 5 miles (8 km) from Buckingham, more than 1 mile (1.6 km) from Finmere and was actually in Shelswell parish next to the village of Newton Purcell. In about 1922 the Great Central renamed the station Finmere. British Railways closed the station in 1963 and the line in 1966.
The route of High Speed 2 follows the old Great Central line route through the parish.
See also
References
- Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
- ^ Betjeman 1968, p. 126.
- ^ Maurice Howard, The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, (Yale, 2007), pp. 38-9.
- ^ Page 1927, pp. 163–168.
Sources and further reading
- Betjeman, John (1968). Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches. Vol. The South. London: Collins. p. 126.
- Page, W.H., ed. (1905). A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria County History. Vol. 1. Westminster: Archibald Constable& Co. pp. 380–381.
- Page, W.H., ed. (1927). A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria County History. Vol. 4. pp. 163–168.
- ISBN 0-14-071019-1.