Padbury

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infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.971
longitude= -0.952
official_name= Padbury
population = 789 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792074&c=Padbury&d=16&e=15&g=424509&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216575911687&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= SP720308
london_distance=

Padbury is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the A413 main road that links Buckingham with Winslow.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Padda's fortress'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as "Pateberie". The Manor of Padbury was exchanged, around the time of the Norman Conquest, for the Manor of Iver between Robert Doyley and Robert Clarenbold of the Marsh.

The village had the distinction in Domesday as being one of the few villages in the country still owned by a native rather than a Norman family. It remained in this family (who later took the name 'de Wolverton' after the village of Wolverton) until 1442 when it was sold to All Souls College, Oxford.

During the English Civil War Padbury was the site of a skirmish between the Royalist and Parliamentarian forces. The Royalists won on this occasion, and the burial of eight Parliamentarian soldiers is recorded in the village's burial register for July 2 1643.

Padbury Church of England School 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 nine. The school has approximately 25 pupils.

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