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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 .
The preferred route for High Speed 2 would see the high-speed line running parallel to the East West Rail between Quainton Road and Claydon. [41] It is proposed to construct an infrastructure maintenance depot between Calvert and Steeple Claydon within the chord linking the former Great Central Main Line and the reinstated Oxford to Bletchley ...
This is a list of places in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.It does not include places which were formerly in Buckinghamshire. For places which were in Buckinghamshire until 1974, and were then transferred to Berkshire, and other places transferred from Buckinghamshire since 1844, see list of Buckinghamshire boundary changes
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.
Padbury Brook just downstream from King's Bridge in the direction of the village of Padbury to the north. About 300m ahead, the brook is joined by Claydon Brook, and after that is known locally as The Twins Padbury Brook at Oxlane Bridge. Padbury brook rises from its source just north of Fringford in Oxfordshire.
Middle Claydon is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about 5 miles (8 km) south of Buckingham and about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Winslow. Administratively, the parish is within the remit of Buckinghamshire Council, the unitary authority for most of the county.
The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a geographical region in Buckinghamshire, England, which is bounded by the City of Milton Keynes and West Northamptonshire to the north, Central Bedfordshire and the Borough of Dacorum (Hertfordshire) to the east, the Chiltern Hills to the south and South Oxfordshire to the west.
The pedigree of Verney of Middle Claydon commences with Ralph de Verney (fl. 1216–1223), but the fortunes of the family were made by Sir Ralph Verney (c. 1410–1478).). After settling in Buckinghamshire in the 13th century, the family had purchased Middle Claydon by the 1460s and it was during this period that Sir Ralph Verney became Lord Mayor of London in 1465 and M.P. for the city in 147