Cheddington

Cheddington
Cheddington
	St. Giles' parish church tower
	Cheddington Location within Buckinghamshire
Population	1,754 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SP9217
Civil parish	Cheddington;
Unitary authority	Buckinghamshire;
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Leighton Buzzard
Postcode district	LU7
Dialling code	01296
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Buckingham and Bletchley;
Website	Welcome to Cheddington
	List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 51°50′49″N 0°39′50″W / 51.847°N 0.664°W

Cheddington is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish has an area of 1,429 acres (578 ha).

The village is about 6 miles northeast of Aylesbury and three miles north of Tring in Hertfordshire. The hamlet of Cooks Wharf has grown up where the main road into the village from Pitstone crosses the Grand Union Canal.

Archaeology

At Southend Hill near the village are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort which has been largely obliterated through arable cultivation.^[2]

History

The earliest known record of the village is in the Domesday Book of 1086, in which it is called Cetendone, which is Old English for "Cetta's Hill". The Church of England parish church of Saint Giles was originally Norman. There is also a Methodist church with a large congregation.

Cheddington manor house is a much gabled and half-timbered red-brick building under a tiled roof, dating from the 16th century.

In 1963 Cheddington featured in the national press as it was near the location of the Great Train Robbery of 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge in the hamlet of Ledburn.^[3]

In 1984, Cheddington received national notoriety as the location of the first assault by Malcolm Fairley, a violent armed rapist, nicknamed "The Fox" because of his cunning nocturnal attacks.^[4]

In the last thirty years^{[clarification needed]} Cheddington, due to its railway station and easy access to four towns, has more than quadrupled in size.^[5]

In 2005 Cheddington won the Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village Competition DeFraine Cup^[6] and also the Buckinghamshire Village of the Year Competition. It went on to win the East of England Young People award in the national competition. Cheddington also won the smaller villages category in the 2006 and 2007 Buckinghamshire Village of the Year Competition and received a special community building award.^{[citation needed]}

Amenities

The village has two public houses: The Swan, a thatched inn, and The Three Horseshoes. A third inn, known as the Rosebery Arms, designed by the Victorian architect George Devey has been converted into houses.

Cheddington Combined School is a mixed community primary school that takes children between the ages of four and 11. The school has about 200 pupils, and its catchment area includes the neighbouring parishes of Horton and Slapton.

Cheddington has various clubs including a tennis club, a bell ringers' association, a badminton club, a history society, a bowls club, a petanque club and a football team.

References

^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013
^ AVDC & Bucks CC Aylesbury Vale Landscape Character Assessment Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 23 April 2009
^ "British Transport Police History: The Great Train Robbery". British Transport Police. Archived from the original on 25 December 2003. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
^ Malcolm Frairley- The Hunt for the Fox published by Watford Observer Archived 16 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed 25 February 2013
^ Cheddington Residents Association Village Guide^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village Competition DeFraine Cup Archived 2 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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

[2] AVDC & Bucks CC Aylesbury Vale Landscape Character Assessment Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 23 April 2009

[3] "British Transport Police History: The Great Train Robbery". British Transport Police. Archived from the original on 25 December 2003. Retrieved 25 July 2007.

[4] Malcolm Frairley- The Hunt for the Fox published by Watford Observer Archived 16 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed 25 February 2013

[5] Cheddington Residents Association Village Guide^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[6] Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village Competition DeFraine Cup Archived 2 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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