Maids Moreton

Maids Moreton
Buckinghamshire
St Edmund's parish church
Location
Grid reference:	SP7035
Location:	52°-0’50"N, -0°58’19"W
Data
Population:	847  (2011)
Post town:	Buckingham
Postcode:	MK18
Dialling code:	01280
Local Government
Council:	Buckinghamshire
Parliamentary constituency:	Buckingham

Maids Moreton is a village and parish in the Buckingham Hundred of northern Buckinghamshire. The village is about a mile north of Buckingham itself. The village is contiguous with the Buckingham urban area and is thus often considered as a suburb.

Description and history

The parish of Maids Moreton covers about 1,365 acres of which 376 acres are arable, 786 acres permanent grass and 26 acres woods and plantations. The soil is mostly clay and gravel and the subsoil gravel.

The village lies along the Buckingham to Towcester road (A413). It contains many 17th-century houses and cottages with timber frames with brick or plaster filling and thatched roofs.

The 15th-century Church of England parish church of Saint Edmund is said to have been built by two maiden ladies of the Pever family, both of whom became acquainted with a gentleman called Alan Stopps, a peer from Stockport in Lancashire, whence the name "Maids' Moreton". The Maids' epitaphs are a wall painting over the north door and brasses on a slab just within the doorway.

The old post office, situated at the junction of Main Street with the A413, closed in the mid-1990s and is now a private house. The chapel (on the A413) was demolished in the early 1980s and the allotments next to the chapel were all used for new housing.

School

Maids Moreton Church of England School is a mixed Church of England voluntary controlled primary school in Maids Moreton. The school takes children between the ages of four and seven and has about 50 pupils.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Maids Moreton)

• North Buckingham Parish