Great Horwood

Great Horwood

Infobox UK place|
country = England
official_name= Great Horwood
latitude= 51.973
longitude= -0.878
civil_parish= Great Horwood
population= 1,025 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792043&c=Great+Horwood&d=16&e=15&g=424215&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1216848344161&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census] ]
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county= Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Buckingham
post_town= MILTON KEYNES
postcode_area= MK
postcode_district= MK17
dial_code= 01296
os_grid_reference= SP770312

Great Horwood is a small village and is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England with a population of about 1025 people (2001 Census). It is about five miles ESE of Buckingham, six miles WSW of Milton Keynes.

The village name 'Horwood' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'muddy wood'. The affix 'Great' was added later to differentiate it from the adjacent village Little Horwood. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 792 the village was recorded as "Horwudu".

The village was from ancient times on the periphery of the Whaddon Chase: royal hunting land that stretched across the north part of the Aylesbury Vale. In 1447 the village was granted Royal charter to hold a weekly market, thus becoming a market town. The rents from the market were collected by New College, Oxford.

Great Horwood is no longer a market town.

A hamlet within the parish border of Great Horwood is Singleborough.

Both Great Horwood village itself and Singleborough have Conservation Areas and there are 46 Grade II Listed Buildings in the Parish.

The parish church is dedicated to St James.

The village is also home to Great Horwood Church of England Combined School, which is a mixed Church of England primary school. It is a voluntary controlled school, which takes children from the age of four through to the age of eleven. The school has approximately 160 pupils. Its catchment area also includes the villages of Thornborough, Nash, Beachampton and Whaddon.

References

External links

* [http://www.greathorwoodschool.ik.org/ Great Horwood Church of England Combined School]

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