Granborough

Granborough
Buckinghamshire
St John the Baptist
Location
Grid reference:	SP768250
Location:	51°55’1"N, -0°53’2"W
Data
Population:	545  (2011)
Post town:	Buckingham
Postcode:	MK18
Dialling code:	01296
Local Government
Council:	Buckinghamshire
Parliamentary constituency:	Buckingham

Granborough (previously Grandborough) is a village and parish in the Ashendon Hundred of Buckinghamshire. It is located about five miles north of Waddesdon, and seven miles south-east of Buckingham. The nearest town is Winslow.

The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means 'green hill'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Grenesberga.

Anciently the manor of Granborough was owned by the abbey at St Albans, though in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1547 ownership passed automatically to the Crown.

The ancient parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, was demolished during the Civil War, though was rebuilt shortly after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1685.

The village is still one of the possessions of the Crown.

There is a public house, logically called the Crown. After the parish church the most interesting building is the neat half-timbered Arts and Crafts village hall. Granborough still has very many thatched cottages and houses, many of them in Green End, a hamlet attached to the village.

References

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Granborough Village Hall