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Calvert is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, near the village of Steeple Claydon.. Originally named after a wealthy local family who had inherited property at Claydon House, Middle Claydon, on condition that they changed their surname to Verney, [1] the village was founded as a hamlet in the Victorian era to house workers for the brick works that were constructed in the area.
Steeple Claydon is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Buckingham , 4.5 miles (7 km) west of Winslow and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Waddesdon .
Buckinghamshire is a non-metropolitan county in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.It covers about four-fifths of area of the ceremonial county and about two-thirds of its population; the City of Milton Keynes accounts for the remainder.
Claydon LNE junction is still used for binliner (containerised domestic waste) and spoil trains for the landfill site at Calvert and empty coaching stock movements. [36] In 2007, four loaded domestic waste services ran daily to Calvert from Cricklewood , Dagenham , Bristol and Northolt . [ 37 ]
The History of local government districts in Buckinghamshire began in 1835 with the formation of poor law unions. This was followed by the creation of various forms of local government body.
Wokingham became a chapelry in the Middle Ages; its church of All Saints was built in the 14th century, probably on the site of a 12th-century chapel. [12] The chapelry of Wokingham was a separate civil parish from an early date, but remained part the ecclesiastical parish of Sonning until 1812. [11] The town was also an ancient borough.
Church of England parish church of St James, Barton Hartshorn, Buckinghamshire, 2006. Buckingham Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the north-west of the county.
The main assembly hall. The original building on the site was a medieval guildhall completed in 1612. [2] After significant industrial growth in the middle of the 19th century, as the silk industry and then the brick-making industry developed, civic leaders decided to replace the very dilapidated guildhall with a new structure.