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Introduction

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in south central England. It has an area of 1883 sq km, and its county town is Aylesbury. It has a population of 590,000.

It borders onto Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire, and Berkshire.

It is an agricultural county, covering part of the Chiltern Hills to the South and the Vale of Aylesbury to the north. It has fertile agricultural lands, with many landed estates, especially those of the de Rothschild family in the 19th century (see Rothschild properties in Buckinghamshire). Industry: Agricultural, furniture, pharmaceuticals, service and distribution industries. There are some residential commuter areas for London in the south.

The name Buckinghamshire is Anglo Saxon and means The district of the land belonging to the kinsmen of Bucca. Bucca, in this sense, would have been an Anglo Saxon individual of some prominence.

Towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire

The boundaries of Buckinghamshire have changed considerably over a number of years. Some of these are now are part of neighbouring counties and unitary authorities, but once formed part of the traditional county of Buckinghamshire. Places that are no longer part of Buckinghamshire are listed in Italics.

Addington, Adstock, Akeley, Amersham, Ascott, Ashendon, Asheridge, Ashley Green, Askett, Aston Abbotts, Aston Clinton, Aston Sandford, Astwood, Aylesbury
Ballinger, Barton Hartshorn, Beachampton, Beaconsfield, Bedgrove, Bellingdon, Biddlesden, Bierton, Bishopstone, Bledlow, Bledlow Ridge, Bletchley, Boarstall, Booker, Botley, Botolph Claydon, Bourne End, Bourton, Boveney, Bow Brickhill, Boycott, Bradenham, Bradwell, Brill, Britwell, Broughton near Aylesbury, Broughton near Milton Keynes, Broughton Crossing, Buckingham, Buckland, Burcott near Bierton, Burcott near Wing, Burnham, Butlers Cross
Cadmore, Caldecote, Caldicot, California, Calvert, Calverton, Castlethorpe, Chackmore, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter, Chalkshire, Chalvey, Charndon, Chartridge, Chearsley, Cheddington, Chenies, Chesham, Chesham Bois, Chetwode, Chicheley, Chilton, Chivery, Cholesbury, Cippenham, Clifton Reynes, Cold Brayfield, Coldmoorham, Coleshill, Colnbrook, Cooks Wharf, Cores End, Crafton, Creslow, Cublington, Cuddington
Dadford, Dagnall, Datchet, Denham, Dinton, Ditton, Dorney, Dorton, Downley, Drayton Beauchamp, Drayton Parslow, Dunsmore, Dunton
Easington, East Claydon, Eaton Bray, Edgcott, Edlesborough, Egypt, Ellesborough, Emberton, Eton, Eythrope
Farnham Common, Farnham Royal, Fawley, Fenny Stratford, Filgrave, Fingest, Flackwell Heath, Fleet Marston, Ford, Foscot, Frieth, Frithsden, Fulmer
Gawcott, Gayhurst, George Green, Gerrards Cross, Gibraltar, Granborough, Great Brickhill, Great Hampden, Great Horwood, Great Kimble, Great Kingshill, Great Linford, Great Marlow, Great Missenden, Great Woolstone, Green Hailey, Grendon Underwood, Grove
Haddenham, Halton, Halton Camp, Hambleden, Handy Cross, Hanslope, Hardmead, Hardwick, Hartwell, Haversham, Hawridge, Hazlemere, Hedgerley & Dean, Hedsor, High Wycombe, Hillesden, Hitcham, Hoggeston, Hogshaw, Holmer Green, Horsenden, Horton near Eton, Horton near Ivinghoe, Hughenden, Hughenden Valley, Hulcott, Hundridge, Hyde Heath
Ibstone, Ickford, Ilmer, Iver, Iver Heath, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston
Jordans
Kimble Wick, Kingsey, Kingswood
Lacey Green, Lamport, Lane End, Langley Marish, Lathbury, Latimer, Lavendon, Leckhampstead, Ledborough, Ledburn, Lee, Lee Clump, Lenborough, Lillingstone Dayrell, Lillingstone Lovell, Linslade, Little Brickhill, Little Chalfont, Little Hampden, Little Horwood, Little Kimble, Little Kingshill, Little Linford, Little London, Little Marlow, Little Missenden, Little Woolstone, Littleworth, Long Crendon, Long Street, Longwick, Loosley Row, Loudwater, Loughton, Lower Bacombe, Lower Cadsden, Lower Pollicott, Lower Weald, Lower Winchendon, Ludgershall, Luffield Abbey
Maids Moreton, Marlow, Marsh, Marsh Gibbon, Marsworth, Meadle, Medmenham, Mentmore, Middle Claydon, Middle Weald, Milton Keynes, Monks Risborough, Moulsoe, Mursley
Naphill, Nash, Nash Lee, Nether Winchendon, Nettleden, New Zealand, Newport Pagnell, Newton Blossomville, Newton Longville, North Crawley, North Lee, North Marston, Northall
Oakley, Olney, Oving, Owlswick
Padbury, Pednor, Penn, Penn Street, Petsoe Manor, Pitchcott, Pitstone, Poundon, Preston Bissett, Prestwood, Princes Risborough
Quainton, Quarrendon
Radclive, Radnage, Ravenstone, Ringshall, Rowsham
St Leonards, Saunderton, Seer Green, Shabbington, Shalstone, Shenley Brook End, Shenley Church End, Sherington, Shipton Lee, Shredding Green, Simpson, Singleborough, Slapton, Slough, Soulbury, Southcote, Speen, Stantonbury, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stoke Goldington, Stoke Hammond, Stoke Mandeville, Stoke Poges, Stokenchurch, Stone, Stony Stratford, Stowe, Swanbourne
Taplow, Tattenhoe, Terrick, Thornborough, Thorney, Thornton, Tingewick, Tongwell, Towersey, Turville, Turweston, Twyford, Tylers Green, Tyringham
Upper Bacombe, Upper Cadsden, Upper Pollicott, Upper Weald, Upper Winchendon, Upton, Upton cum Chalvey
Verney Junction
Waddesdon, Walters Ash, Walton near Aylesbury, Walton near Woburn Sands, Warrington, Water Eaton, Water Stratford, Watermead, Waterside, Wavendon, Weedon, Wendover, West Wycombe, Westbury, Westcott, Westlington, Weston Turville, Weston Underwood, Wexham, Whaddon, Wheeler End, Whitchurch, Whiteleaf, Widmer End, Willen, Winchmore Hill, Wing, Wingrave, Winslow, Woburn Sands, Wolverton, Wooburn, Woodham, Worminghall, Wotton Underwood, Woughton on the Green, Wraysbury

Places of interest

Famous People from Bucks

The following people are either from Buckinghamshire, have lived in Buckinghamshire, or continue to live in Buckinghamshire.

Nancy Astor, society hostess, lived in Cliveden
Nick Beggs, musician, is from Winslow
Lynda Bellingham, actress, is from Aylesbury
Cilla Black, television presenter, lives in Denham
Enid Blyton, writer, lived in Beaconsfield
Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII, had a house in Wendover
Melanie Brown, musician, lives in Little Marlow
John Craven, television presenter, lives in Princes Risborough
Roald Dahl, writer, lived in Great Missenden
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, politician, lived in both High Wycombe and Beaconsfield
Iain Duncan Smith, politician, lives in Swanbourne
Noel Edmonds, television presenter, once lived in Weston Turville
Edward the Confessor, king of England, had a palace in Brill
T.S. Eliot, writer, lived in Marlow
Noel Gallagher, musician, lives in Little Chalfont
Sir John Gielgud, actor, was living in Aylesbury when he died
John Hampden, politician, was from Great Hampden
Jamiroquai, musician, lives in Princes Risborough
David Jason, actor, lives in Wendover
Jerome K. Jerome, writer, lived in Marlow
Howard Jones, musician, is from High Wycombe
Arthur Lasenby Liberty, merchant, was from Chesham
John Milton, writer, lived in Chalfont St Giles
Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer, was from Middle Claydon
Mike Oldfield, musician, once lived in Little Chalfont
Ozzy Osbourne, musician, has a house in Chalfont St Peter
John Otway, musician, is from Aylesbury
William Penn, politician, was from Penn
Terry Pratchett, writer, was born in Beaconsfield
Pauline Quirke, actress, lives in Beaconsfield
Tim Rice, lyricist, is from Amersham
Andy Riley, writer, is from Aylesbury
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, banking pioneer, had houses in Ascott, Aston Clinton, Eythrope, Halton, Mentmore and Waddesdon
Mary Shelley, writer, lived in Marlow
Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer, lived in Marlow
Jackie Stewart, racing driver, lives in Wendover
Edmund Waller, poet, was from Amersham
Roger of Wendover, chronicler, was from Wendover
John Wyclif, theologian, lived in Ludgershall