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Wendover is a market town that sits at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district. The mainly arable parish boasts many hamlets that nestle in amongst the lush forest on the surrounding hills.
The town name is of Brythonic origin and means "white waters", pertaining to the stream that rises in the adjacent hills and flows through the middle of the town, bringing chalk deposits on its way.
The parish church of St Mary sits outside the town to the east on the hillside: a feature that is very common among towns with strong Celtic origins. There is a distinctive red brick, spired clock tower at the crossroads in the centre of the town that was built in 1842. The tree lined Aylesbury Street includes the 16th-century timber framed Chiltern House and 18th-century Red House.
The town has had a Royal charter to hold a weekly market since 1464 meaning that officially it is a town rather than a village, although today many residents of Wendover like to refer to it as the latter. It is part of a civil parish, and the parish uses the term "Parish Council" rather than "Town Council", as it would be entitled to.
Part of the town was once the property of Anne Boleyn whose father held the manor of Aylesbury among his many estates. There is still a row of houses in the town today, known as Anne Boleyn's Cottages. The town is the birthplace of Gordon Onslow Ford, British surrealist artist, and it is believed to be the birthplace of the medieval chronicler Roger of Wendover. The town is also the birth-place of Cecilia Payne, who discovered that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen.
The town is at the 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. Disused for over a century, the arm is in course of being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust. Remote and rural for almost all its length, the canal attracts much local wildlife.
The
many hamlets in Wendover parish include ; Cobblers Hill, Concord, Dean, The Hale,
Hazeldean, Kings Ash, Little London,
crubwood, Smalldean, Wendover Dean Wendover
Marsh
Today the town is very popular with commuters working in London. The popularity is due partly to the town's easy access to London by road, partly to Wendover railway station.
Wendover was well known for having a varied and diverse range of pubs.
By
virtue of its excellent location, sitting in a gap in the Chiltern Hills and a
designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Wendover has much to offer both
local people and visitors wishing to explore the local countryside.
The Chiltern Hills are a chalk escarpment in southeast England. They are known locally as the Chilterns. The Chilterns stretches in a seventy-five mile southwest to northeast diagonal from Goring-On-Thames in Oxfordshire through Buckinghamshire, via Dunstable Downs in Bedfordshire to the furthest northeast ridge which runs from Deacon Hill, Pegsdon, close to the border of Hertfordshire. The boundary of the hills is clearly defined on the northwest side by the scarp slope. The dip slope, by its nature, merges with the landscape to the southeast. Similarly, the Thames provides a clear terminal whereas, northeast of Luton, the hills decline slowly in prominence.
The more gently sloping country - the dip slope - to the southeast of the Chiltern scarp is also generally referred to as the Chilterns, containing much beech woodland and many pretty villages. Rivers that drain from the Chiltern Hills include the River Mimram, River Lee, River Ver, River Bulbourne, River Misbourne, River Chess, River Wye and River Gade and are classified as chalk streams.
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