Hardwick, Buckinghamshire

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Harwick
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latitude= 51.8634
longitude= -0.8320
civil_parish= Harwick
population = 314 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792047&c=Hardwick&d=16&e=15&g=424460&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216457181501&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statisitcs 2001 Census] ]
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county= Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Aylesbury
post_town= AYLESBURY
postcode_district= HP22
postcode_area= HP
dial_code= 01296
os_grid_reference= SP805192

Hardwick is a village and is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale, about four miles north of Aylesbury.

Hardwick is a common place name in England, of Anglo Saxon origin meaning 'livestock farm'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was known as "Harduich".

Nearby Weedon is a hamlet in the parish of Hardwick.

The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and the churchyard contains a grave for the soldiers who died, during the English Civil War, at the Battle of Aylesbury in 1642. [cite web
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first=Kevin
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title=The Battle of Aylesbury, 1642
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publisher=GENUKI
date=8th November 2000
url=http://met.open.ac.uk/GENUKI/big/eng/BKM/Military/Civil_War/BattleOfAylesbury/index.html
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accessdate=2006-08-04]

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