Cooks Wharf

Cooks Wharf
Grand Union Canal at Cooks Wharf
Cooks Wharf Location within Buckinghamshire
OS grid reference	SP9216
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
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Buckingham
List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 51°50′10″N0°39′18″W / 51.836°N 0.655°W / 51.836; -0.655

Cooks Wharf is a hamlet in the parish of Cheddington, in Buckinghamshire, England. ^{[1] [2]} It is located where the main road into Cheddington from Pitstone crosses the Grand Union Canal. At the 2011 census the population of the area was included in the civil parish of Marsworth.

Apples from the surrounding orchards were loaded onto the narrowboats here to travel down the canal to London.

References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 165 Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard (Thame & Berkhamsted) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN   9780319229163.
2. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.