Beachampton
| Beachampton | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 Parish church of the Assumption | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP7737 |
| Location: | 52°1’30"N, 0°52’30"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 184 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Milton Keynes |
| Postcode: | MK19 |
| Dialling code: | 01908 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Buckinghamshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Buckingham |
Beachampton is a village and parish beside the River Great Ouse in the Buckingham Hundred of Buckinghamshire. The village is about five miles east of Buckingham and a similar distance west of Milton Keynes.
The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "home farm by a stream". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Bechentone.[2]
There is no documentary evidence for the tradition that Hall Farm in Beachampton was the home of Catherine Parr when she was married to King Henry VIII.[3]
Parts of the village stand on high ground, but most of the village is prone to regular flooding by the stream that runs through the village, a tributary of the River Ouse.
The family name "Beachampton" originates in this village, and was first recorded in manorial records in 1175 when Osmer de Beachampton was a tenant here.
The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin date from 14th century.[3] The Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street rebuilt upper part of the bell-tower in 1873-74.[4]
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Beachampton) |
- Victoria County History: A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 4. 1927. pp. 149–153. available online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62556
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973) [1960]. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.
