Chetwode
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| Population | 173 (2011 Census including Barton Hartshorn)[1] |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SP6429] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Buckingham |
| Postcode district | MK18 |
| Dialling code | 01280 |
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| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
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Chetwode (/ˈtʃɛtwʊd/)[3] is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Buckingham, in the Buckinghamshire district of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is bounded to the southwest and southeast by a brook called The Birne, which here also forms part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire.
Etymology
The name Chetwode is first attested in a charter of 949 (preserved in a seventeenth-century copy) as Cetwuda, and then in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceteode. The first part of the name comes from the Brittonic word corresponding to modern Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang". ('wood'), expanded with the Old English word Script error: No such module "Lang"., of the same meaning.[4][5]Template:Rp
Manor
There is a manor at Chetwode that stayed in the same family from the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 through to the 1960s. The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Robert de Thain held the manor from Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.
Priory and parish church
In 1244 Sir Ralphe de Norwich founded an Augustinian priory at Chetwode. In 1460, owing to its poverty, the priory was dissolved and annexed to the nearby Notley Abbey (or "Nutley" Abbey) in Long Crendon. This led to the first recognition of Chetwode as a village rather than just a priory.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas was once part of the Augustinian priory church. However the parish church had become ruinous in the 15th century and this building replaced it as the parish church in 1480. The stonework is a fine example of the work of the 13th century, particularly the sedilia, the east window of five lancets and the triple-lancet window on the south side, with stained glass of the 13th and 14th centuries. The 14th century north chapel later became the manor pew.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
A plan of the arrangements of the church and priory cloister in the 16th-century shows the development of Priory House.[6]
Economic history
The parish's common lands were enclosed by an Act of Parliament passed in 1812.[7]
In 1899 the Great Central Railway opened its main line to London through the southwestern part of the parish. The nearest station was Finmere for Buckingham, which was just over the Oxfordshire county boundary on the main road between Buckingham and Bicester and just over 1 mile (1.6 km) from Chetwode. The station was 5 miles (8 km) from Buckingham, more than 1 mile (1.6 km) from Finmere and was actually in Shelswell parish next to the village of Newton Purcell. In about 1922 the Great Central renamed the station Finmere. British Railways closed the station in 1963 and the line in 1966.
The route of High Speed 2 follows the old Great Central line route through the parish.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Location of Buckingham and Bletchley". parliament.uk. July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557., s.v. Chetwode.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Coates, Richard; Breeze, Andrew (2000). Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain. Stamford: Tyas. ISBN 1900289415..
- ^ Maurice Howard, The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, (Yale, 2007), pp. 38–39.
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Sources and further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Betjeman, John (1968). Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches. Vol. The South. London: Collins. p. 126.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Page, W.H., ed. (1905). A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria County History. Vol. 1. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 380–381.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Page, W.H., ed. (1927). A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria County History. Vol. 4. pp. 163–168.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973) [1966]. Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 92–93. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.
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