Upper Winchendon

Upper Winchendon

Coordinates: 51°49′22″N 0°55′05″W / 51.8227°N 0.9181°W / 51.8227; -0.9181

Upper Winchendon
Upper Winchendon is located in Buckinghamshire
Upper Winchendon

 Upper Winchendon shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 119 [1]
OS grid reference SP745145
Parish Upper Winchendon
District Aylesbury Vale
Shire county Buckinghamshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town AYLESBURY
Postcode district HP18
Dialling code 01296
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Buckingham
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Upper Winchendon (also called Over Winchendon) is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Valedistrict in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about a mile south of Waddesdon, three and a half miles west of Aylesbury.

The village name 'Winchendon' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'hill at a bend'. Collectively the villages of Upper Winchendon and Nether Winchendon (sometimes called Lower Winchendon) were called Wichendone. The prefix 'Upper' was added later to differentiate between the village on higher ground from the village on lower ground.

The ancient manor house in the village used to belong to the convent of St Frideswide in Oxford, to whom it was given by King Henry I. Following the suppression of that convent in the early 16th century the manor was given to Cardinal Wolsey, though was seized by the Crown shortly afterwards in 1544 along with Wolsey's other possessions.

In 1623 the manor was given by the king to the Goodwin family, who expanded the manor house into a fine mansion. It then came into the Wharton family, one of whom was made the Duke of Wharton in 1718 for his services to the Crown. He later had all his possessions seized for being a supporter of the Young Pretender (Bonnie Prince Charlie), after which time the house fell into disrepair and has since been completely demolished.

References

  1. ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census

External links

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v · d · eAylesbury Vale District
Towns
(Component
Areas and Hamlets)
Aylesbury (Bedgrove, Broughton, California, Elm Farm, Elmhurst, Haydon Hill, New Zealand, Prebendal Farm, Quarrendon, Queens Park, Southcourt, Turnfurlong, Walton, Walton Court) • Buckingham (Bourton, Buffler's Holt, Castle Fields, Mount Pleasant, Page Hill) • Wendover (Cobblers Hill, Concord, Dean, Hazeldean, Kings Ash, Little London, Lower Bacombe, Scrubwood, Smalldean, The Hale, Upper Bacombe, Wendover Dean, Wendover Marsh, World's End) • Winslow (Shipton, Shipton Brook)
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Other Civil Parishes
(Component Villages
and Hamlets)
Addington • Adstock • Akeley (Akeley, Stockholt) • Ashendon (Ashendon, Lower Pollicott, Upper Pollicott) • Aston Clinton (Aston Clinton, Chivery, Vaches) • Aston Abbotts • Aston Sandford • Barton Hartshorn • Beachampton • Biddlesden • Bierton with Broughton (Bierton, Broughton, Broughton Crossing, Burcott) • Boarstall (Boarstall, Honeyburge) • Brill (Brill, Little London) • Buckingham Park (Berryfields, Weedon Hill) • Buckland (Buckland, Buckland Wharf) • Calvert Green (Calvert) • Charndon • Chearsley • Cheddington (Cheddington, Cooks Wharf) • Chetwode • Chilton (Chilton, Easington) • Coldharbour (Fairford Leys) • Creslow • Cublington • Cuddington • Dinton-with-Ford and Upton (Aston Mullins, Dinton, Ford, Gibraltar, Upton, Waldridge, Westlington) • Dorton • Drayton Beauchamp • Drayton Parslow • Dunton • East Claydon (Botolph Claydon, East Claydon) • Edgcott • Edlesborough (Dagnall, Edlesborough, Northall, Ringshall) • Fleet Marston • Foscott • Gawcott with Lenborough (Gawcott, Lenborough) • Granborough (Granborough, Green End) • Great Brickhill • Great Horwood (Great Horwood, Singleborough) • Grendon Underwood • Haddenham (Haddenham, South End) • Halton • Hardwick • Hillesden • Hoggeston • Hogshaw (Fulbrook, Hogshaw) • Hulcott • Ickford • Ivinghoe (Greatgap, Horton, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston, Ringshall) • Kingsey • Kingswood (Kingswood, Tetchwick) • Leckhampstead • Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey (Lillingstone Dayrell, Luffield Abbey) • Lillingstone Lovell • Little Horwood • Long Crendon • Ludgershall • Maids Moreton • Marsh Gibbon (Marsh Gibbon, Little Marsh, Summerstown) • Marsworth (Marsworth, Startop's End) • Mentmore (Crafton, Ledburn, Mentmore) • Middle Claydon (Middle Claydon, Verney Junction) • Mursley • Nash • Nether Winchendon • Newton Longville • North Marston • Oakley (Addingrove, Little London, Oakley) • Oving • Padbury • Pitchcott • Pitstone (Barley End, Pitstone, Pitstone Green, Pitstone Hill) • Poundon • Preston Bissett • Quainton (Quainton, Shipton Lee) • Quarrendon (Berryfields) • Radclive-cum-Chackmore (Radclive, Chackmore) • Shabbington • Shalstone • Slapton (Grove, Horton Wharf, Slapton) • Soulbury (Bragenham, Chelmscote, Hollingdon, Soulbury, Stockgrove) • Steeple Claydon • Stewkley (North End, Stewkley, Stewkley Dean) • Stoke Hammond • Stoke Mandeville • Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell (Bishopstone, Hartwell, Lower Hartwell, Sedrup, Stone) • Stowe (Boycott, Dadford, Lamport, Stowe) • Swanbourne (Nearton End, Swanbourne) • Thornborough • Thornton • Tingewick • Turweston • Twyford • Upper Winchendon • Waddesdon (Eythrope, Waddesdon, Wormstone) • Water Stratford • Watermead • Weedon (East End, Weedon, Weedon Hill) • Westbury • Westcott • Weston Turville (Bye Green, Weston Turville) • Whaddon • Whitchurch • Wing (Ascott, Burcott, Littleworth, Wing) • Wingrave (Burston, Nup End, Rowsham, Wingrave) • Woodham • Worminghall • Wotton Underwood
Former Districts
and Boroughs
Former
Constituencies

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