Hoggeston

Hoggeston
Buckinghamshire
Rear view of the Church of the Holy Cross, Hoggeston
Location
Grid reference:	SP806250
Location:	51°55’5"N, -0°49’33"W
Data
Population:	104  (2010 (est.))
Post town:	Buckingham
Postcode:	MK18
Dialling code:	01296
Local Government
Council:	Buckinghamshire
Parliamentary constituency:	Buckingham

Hoggeston is a village and parish in the Cottesloe Hundred of Buckinghamshire. It is located around 2½ miles south-east of Winslow, and around eight miles north of Aylesbury.

The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means "Hogg's farm". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Hochestone.

The village was once granted (in 1314) a Royal charter to hold a market once a week, though this has long since been discontinued.

The parish church is dedicated to the Holy Cross. The church, which from the exterior appears all of one period, has a 16th-century weatherboarded bell turret (containing three Change ringing Bells and a Sanctus bell) over the north aisle. The origins of the church are 13th century. There are 14th century additions, and some Perpendicular windows of the same era. The stained-glass east window was designed by Sir Niniam Comper in 1949. Anciently there was a fair in the village every year on the feast day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (commonly called Holyrood Day). The wrought-iron gate, made in the 1970s, to the church yard depicts a stag, the crest of the Micklem family, who resided at Maines Hill, a house just outside the confines of the village.

South of the church is Hoggeston Manor house. This Jacobean house is built of brick with a blue brick diapering pattern. The house is symmetrical and among its noticeable features are the giant brick pilasters, on the north and south façades. The interior has a remarkable Jacobean oak staircase with dumbbell-shaped balusters.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hoggeston)

• Hoggeston Village website

Hoggeston Manor House (now Manor Farm)