Great Horwood

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Great Horwood
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Great Horwood
Location within Buckinghamshire
Population1,049 (2011 Census) [1]
OS grid reference SP770312
Civil parish
  • Great Horwood
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MILTON KEYNES
Postcode district MK17
Dialling code 01296
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
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Buckinghamshire
51°58′23″N0°52′41″W / 51.973°N 0.878°W / 51.973; -0.878

Great Horwood is a small village and civil parish within the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. At the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,049. It is about five miles ESE of Buckingham, six miles WSW of Milton Keynes.

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History and locale

The name 'Horwood' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'muddy wood'. The affix 'Great' was added later to differentiate it from the adjacent village Little Horwood. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 792 the village was recorded as Horwudu.[ citation needed ]

The village was from ancient times on the periphery of the Whaddon Chase: royal hunting land that stretched across the north part of the Aylesbury Vale. In 1447 the village was granted Royal charter to hold a weekly market, thus becoming a market town. The rents from the market were collected by New College, Oxford. Great Horwood is no longer a market town. In 1996, the lordship of the manor of Great Horwood was sold by New College to D. Jackson "Jack" Smith, an American lawyer and former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. [3]

A hamlet within the parish border of Great Horwood is Singleborough.[ citation needed ]

Notable buildings

Both Great Horwood village itself and Singleborough have Conservation Areas and there are 46 Grade II listed buildings in the Parish.[ citation needed ] Great Horwood has two historic pubs: The Swan Inn on Winslow Road [4] and The Crown, on the village green, which closed in 2019. [5]

The parish church is dedicated to St James. [6]

Great Horwood Church of England Combined School is a voluntary controlled Church of England primary school. The school is mixed, with approximately 160 pupils, aged between four and eleven. Its catchment area also includes the villages of Thornborough, Nash, Beachampton and Whaddon.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013
  2. ↑ "Location of Buckingham and Bletchley". parliament.uk. July 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  3. ↑ Moulding, Rod (2012). "D. Jack Smith: Lord Of The Manor". Great Horwood History. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Swan Inn". 4 August 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Crown". The Lost Pubs Project. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "The Crown". St. James Church. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
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