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Human settlement in England

Biddlesden

Biddlesden

Location within Buckinghamshire

Population| 113 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference| SP6339
Civil parish|

* Biddlesden

Unitary authority|

* Buckinghamshire

Ceremonial county|

* Buckinghamshire

Region|

* South East

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Brackley
Postcode district| NN13
Dialling code| 01280
Police| Thames Valley
Fire| Buckinghamshire
Ambulance| South Central
UK Parliament|

* Buckingham

List of places

England
Buckinghamshire

52°03′22″N 1°04′37″W﻿ / ﻿52.056°N 1.077°W﻿ / 52.056; -1.077

Biddlesden is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in north-west Buckinghamshire, England on the boundary with Northamptonshire. It is about 5 miles (8 km) east-north-east of Brackley, Northamptonshire and 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Buckingham. The River Great Ouse forms part of the western boundary of the parish, separating the village from Northamptonshire. The ancient royal forest of Whittlewood extended to the northern edge of the village.

## History[edit]

The village toponym is derived from the Old English for either "house in a valley" or "Byttel's valley". In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village is recorded as Betesdene.

In 1147 Ernald de Bosco founded the Cistercian Biddlesden Abbey. In 1315, the village was granted a temporary charter[citation needed] to hold a weekly market. When the abbey was seized on behalf of Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was assessed to be earning in excess of £175 annually in rents and tithes.

Although the abbey continued after this time as living accommodation for those in favour with the monarch, the building was not maintained thoroughly and fell into disrepair. By the 18th century the abbey was in ruins and was finally demolished in 1727.[citation needed] The country house of Biddlesden Park was built on the same site.

Within the parish of Biddlesden there was the hamlet of Evershaw. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at the time of King Edward the Confessor this settlement was listed as being in the possession of a "certain bandy-legged man"[citation needed]. Evershaw's toponym is derived from the Old English for "boar wood". The family names "Evershaw" and "Eversaw" are derived from this place[citation needed]. No trace of the hamlet remains today.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Neighbourhood Statistics Census 2011, Accessed 3 February 2013

## External links[edit]

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Aylesbury Vale district

* Buckinghamshire
* Unitary Council elections
* County Council elections
* District Council elections

* Aylesbury Constituency
* Buckingham Constituency

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
* Dean
* Kings Ash
* Little London
* Lower Bacombe
* Smalldean
* The Hale
* Upper Bacombe
* Wendover Dean
* World's End
* Winslow
* Shipton
* Shipton Brook

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
* Burston
* Aston Sandford
* Barton Hartshorn
* Beachampton
* Berryfields
* Biddlesden
* Bierton
* Burcott
* Boarstall
* Boarstall
* Honeyburge
* Brill
* Brill
* Little London
* Broughton Hamlet
* Buckingham Park
* 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
* 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
* Halton
* Hardwick
* Hillesden
* Hoggeston
* Hogshaw
* Fulbrook
* Hulcott
* Ickford
* Ivinghoe
* Greatgap
* Horton
* Ivinghoe
* Ivinghoe Aston
* Ringshall
* Kingsbrook
* 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
* Radclive-cum-Chackmore
* Radclive
* Chackmore
* Shabbington
* Shalstone
* Slapton
* Grove
* Horton Wharf
* Slapton
* Soulbury
* Bragenham
* Chelmscote
* Hollingdon
* Soulbury
* Stockgrove
* Steeple Claydon
* Stewkley
* North End
* Stewkley
* South End
* 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
* Nup End
* Rowsham
* Wingrave
* Woodham
* Worminghall
* Wotton Underwood

Former districts
and boroughs|

* Municipal Borough of Aylesbury
* Municipal Borough of Buckingham
* Buckingham Rural District
* Long Crendon Rural District
* Wing Rural District

Former
constituencies|

* Buckinghamshire County Constituency
* Wendover Constituency

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