Hillesden

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Hillesden
latitude= 51.9582
longitude= -1.0046
civil_parish= Hillesden
population = 213 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792048&c=Hillesden&d=16&e=15&g=424316&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216473752453&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census] ]
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county= Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Buckingham
post_town= BUCKINGHAM
postcode_district= MK18
postcode_area= MK
dial_code= 01280
os_grid_reference= SP678302

Hillesden is a village and is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the very north of the county, about four miles south of Buckingham.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Hild's hill'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as "Ilesdone", though earlier it had been referred to as "Hildesdun".

During the English Civil War the manor house at Hillesden was made a garrison for the Royalists. On the success of the Parliamentarians it was plundered greatly and its owner thrown into jail, where he subsequently died. The medieval church, built in 1493 was saved from the ravages of war, however, and remains to this day along with Cavalier bullet holes in its door.

The parish church in Hillesden is dedicated to All Saints. The tithes of this church were anciently collected by Christ Church, Oxford.

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