Wotton Underwood

Wotton Underwood
Wotton Underwood
	All Saints' parish church
	Wotton Underwood Location within Buckinghamshire
Area	1.053 km2 (0.407 sq mi)
Population	119 (2011 Census)
• Density	113/km2 (290/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SP6816
Civil parish	Wotton Underwood;
Unitary authority	Buckinghamshire;
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Aylesbury
Postcode district	HP18
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Buckingham;
	List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 51°50′16″N 1°00′09″W / 51.8378°N 1.0024°W

Wotton Underwood is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, 7 miles (11 km) north of Thame, Oxfordshire.

The toponym is derived from the Old English for "farm near a wood". It is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD 848 as Wudotun and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Oltone. The affix "Underwood" was added later to distinguish the village from other places also called Wotton. The affix means "near the wood" and refers to the village's nearness to the ancient Bernwood Forest.^[2]

The present manor house in the village, Wotton House, dates from the early eighteenth century, but has been much altered since, notably by John Soane in the 1820s. The former stables, now called South Pavilion, was the home of actor Sir John Gielgud; it was bought by Tony and Cherie Blair for £4m, in 2008.^[3]

Church

The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building, with parts dating from the 12th century: it was largely rebuilt in 1867 by G. E. Street for the Duke of Buckingham. The South aisle contains several monuments to members of the Grenville family, who were lords of the manor from the 12th to the 18th century. There are also monuments to Richard, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (d. 1889), and his wife Caroline, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos (d. 1874).

All Saints's Church is a member of the Bernwode Benefice of the Church of England, which covers Wotton Underwood, along with the village parishes of Ashendon, Boarstall, Brill, Chilton, Dorton, and Ludgershall. ^[4]

Railways

The Brill Tramway, originally known as the Wotton Tramway and, from 1899, part of the Metropolitan Railway, which served the area, had a station named Wotton which closed in 1935 with the rest of the line.^[5]

The Great Central Railway built a line from Grendon Underwood to Princes Risborough, and upon that opened a station at Wotton in 1906; this closed in 1953.^[6]

Geography

The parish is on a mid-height escarpment of the outer Chiltern Hills and has an irregular shape generally bounded by headwaters. It includes a southern thin projection skirting Ashendon. Two streams rise just outside the area and flow into the south-centre from west and east and then flow north. Its relatively small area and low population itself was reduced by an enclosure act - see Wotton House. In 1821 its population reached 344 residents, which has not been exceeded since.^[7] Otherwise bereft of woods and lakes, the west part has two lakes and the Warrens, an area of woodland laid out by Wotton House. The number of houses fell from 73 in 1951 to 42 ten years later.^[8]

Notable residents

References

^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013
^ Seen as Wotton Under Bernewode, in 1377; Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; CP 40/466; Edward III; 1377; last entry on image: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/E3/CP40no466/aCP40no466fronts/IMG_0221.htm
^ Jones, Sam (5 May 2008). "Blairs pay £4m for Gielgud's former home". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 May 2008.
^ "All Saints, Wotton Underwood". Bernwode Benefice.
^ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (November 2006). "Historical Background". Aylesbury to Rugby. Midland Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-904474-91-8.
^ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (November 2006). "figs. 61,62". Aylesbury to Rugby.
^ "A Vision of Britain" Units and statistics collated by the University of Portsmouth and others. Retrieved 2016-09-04
^ "A Vision of Britain" Units and statistics collated by the University of Portsmouth and others. Retrieved 2016-09-04
^ Swaine, Jon (3 April 2010). "Tony Blair 'has blighted Buckinghamshire village'". Telegraph. London: Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 3 April 2010.

External links

Media related to Wotton Underwood at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013

[2] Seen as Wotton Under Bernewode, in 1377; Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; CP 40/466; Edward III; 1377; last entry on image: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/E3/CP40no466/aCP40no466fronts/IMG_0221.htm

[3] Jones, Sam (5 May 2008). "Blairs pay £4m for Gielgud's former home". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 May 2008.

[4] "All Saints, Wotton Underwood". Bernwode Benefice.

[5] Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (November 2006). "Historical Background". Aylesbury to Rugby. Midland Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-904474-91-8.

[6] Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (November 2006). "figs. 61,62". Aylesbury to Rugby.

[7] "A Vision of Britain" Units and statistics collated by the University of Portsmouth and others. Retrieved 2016-09-04

[8] "A Vision of Britain" Units and statistics collated by the University of Portsmouth and others. Retrieved 2016-09-04

[9] Swaine, Jon (3 April 2010). "Tony Blair 'has blighted Buckinghamshire village'". Telegraph. London: Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 3 April 2010.

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