Woodham, Buckinghamshire

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Woodham
Buckinghamshire
Location
Grid reference: SP699183
Location: 51°51’31"N, 0°59’5"W
Data
Population: 64  (Mid-2010 (est.)[1])
Post town: Aylesbury
Postcode: HP18
Dialling code: 01296
Local Government
Council: Buckinghamshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Buckingham

Woodham is a hamlet and parish in the Ashendon Hundred of Buckinghamshire, about 7½ miles west of Aylesbury. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Kingswood.

The toponym is derived from the Old English for "home near a wood", referring to its proximity to the ancient Bernwood Forest.

Woodham is on the ancient Akeman Street Roman road, which since the 1920s has been classified as the A41.

In 1906 the Great Central Railway built a line through the parish and opened Akeman Street railway station where it crossed the main road at Woodham. The station had a short working life, being closed by the GCR's successor the London and North Eastern Railway in 1930.

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