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Wendover occurs as picturesque market town that sits at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. A chiefly cultivable parish is 5,832 acres (Twenty-four klick²) inside size & boasts numerous hamlets that nestle in amongst a lush forest on the surrounding hills.
A town title is of Brythonic origin and means "white waters", on to the stream that rises in the adjacent hills & flows through the middle of the town, bringing chalk deposits on its way. A parish church of St Mary sits outside the town to the east on the hillside: the feature that is super green among towns using hard Celtic origins.
the town has experienced a Royal charter to hold the each week market since 1464 meaning that officially it is the town like than the village, although today numerous residents of Wendover rather to refer to that when a latter. These are the share of a civil parish, and a parish utilizes a term "Parish Council" like than "Town Council", when it would exist as entitled to.
A town was another time a residence of Anne Boleyn whose father held the manor of Aylesbury among his many estates. There exists however the row of houses in the town in todays world, called Anne Boleyn's Bungalow. A town is besides a birthplace of Gordon Onslow Ford, British surrealist artist, and these are believed to become a birthplace of the mediaeval chronicler Roger of Wendover.
A town is at a terminus of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal, which joins Tring summit level of the Grand Union main line beside Marsworth top lock. Obsolete for on top a century, the arm is inside course of existence restored per [http://www.wendovercanal.org.uk Wendover Arm Trust]. Remote & rural for virtually tons its length, a canal attracts lot local wildlife.
In todays world a town is very popular sustaining commuters working in London. A popularity flow from part to the town's real life access to London by road, part to the railroad station in the town served by Chiltern Railways from London Marylebone via Amersham, and partially because these are thus picturesque. Property values keep close at hand risen dramatically inside recent years since a completion of the Wendover Bypass removed through traffic on the A413 from the town's narrow streets.
There are quadruplet schools in A town; The John Hampden School (Age 4-7), Wendover Church of England Junior School (Age 7-11), The John Colet School (Age 11-18) and Wendover Home School (Special Educational Needs).
A town was residence to actor David Jason, who currently shacks deuce miles away inside Butlers Cross, and occurs as popular stopping polish off point for the Prime Minister due to its proximity to Chequers. A town is twinned by having a town of Liffre in Brittany, France.
A numbers of hamlets within Wendover parish include:
Cobblers Hill
Concord
Dean
A Hale
Hazeldean
Kings Ash
Little London
Scrubwood
Smalldean
Swan Bottom
Wendover Dean
Wendover Marsh
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