- Aylesbury Vale
The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a large area of flat land largely to be found in
Buckinghamshire ,England . Its boundary is marked byMilton Keynes to the north,Leighton Buzzard and theChiltern Hills to the east and south,Thame to the south andBicester to the west.The vale is named after
Aylesbury , the county town of Buckinghamshire. Two other towns lie within the vale and they are Winslow andBuckingham .The bed of the vale is largely made up of
clay that was formed at the end of theice age . Also at this time the vast underground reserves of water that make thewater table higher than average in the Vale of Aylesbury were created.Today the area is a local government district of northern Buckinghamshire, administered by Aylesbury Vale District Council. This district was formed on
April 1 ,1974 by the merger of the boroughs ofAylesbury andBuckingham ,Aylesbury Rural District ,Buckingham Rural District ,Wing Rural District and part ofWinslow Rural District .In the 2001 UK
census the population of Aylesbury Vale was 165,748, representing an increase since 1991 of 18,600 people [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/11ub.asp] . About half of those live in thecounty town Aylesbury.There are 111 civil parishes: 84 with a parish or town council and a further 27 operating with a Parish meeting, see list of civil parishes in Aylesbury Vale
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