Hitcham, Buckinghamshire

Hitcham, Buckinghamshire

Hitcham was a village in Buckinghamshire, England. Today it is indistinguishable from the extended village of Burnham and is no longer marked on Ordnance Survey 1:50000 maps as a separate settlement [ [http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?local=h&scale=25000&title=Hitcham%20(Buckinghamshire)&lon=-0.676500030887704&lat=51.5325989357955&icon=x Ordnance Survey 1:50000 image of Hitcham area from Multimap, (retrieved 5 May 2007)] ] . It is to the west of Burnham, adjacent to the common on which Burnham Beeches stands.

The village name 'Hitcham' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Hycga's homestead'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as "Hucheham".

The civil parish of Hitcham was abolished in 1934 under a County Review Order, with the urban part going to Burnham parish, a larger but less populous part going to Taplow, and a tiny sliver going to Dorney.

References

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