Whaddon, Buckinghamshire

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Whaddon
Buckinghamshire

Whaddon, 2020
Location
Grid reference: SP805340
Location: 52°0’0"N, -0°49’41"W
Data
Population: 533  (2011[1])
Post town: Milton Keynes
Postcode: MK17
Dialling code: 01908
Local Government
Council: Buckinghamshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Buckingham

Whaddon is a village and parish in the Cottesloe Hundred of Buckinghamshire. It is situated just outside of Bletchley, a constituent town of Milton Keynes.

The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means 'hill where wheat is grown'. The village is referred to several times in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle generally in the form of Hwætædun.

The village is at the centre of the ancient Whaddon Chase, the site for many centuries of royal hunting lands. Whaddon Chase is designated an area of 'Special Landscape Interest'.

Whaddon Church of England School is a mixed Church of England primary school. It is a voluntary controlled school, which takes children from the age of four through to the age of eight. The school has approximately 50 pupils.

Whaddon Hall, the village manor, was once home to the Selby family (also known as Selby-Lowndes), whose ancestor William Lowndes built the larger and grander Winslow Hall. Both mansions are still private houses.[2] During the Second World War Whaddon Hall served as headquarters of Section VIII (Communications) of MI6, as an outpost of Bletchley Park.[3]

References

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  1. Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 census, Accessed 3 February 2013
  2. "From the Wireless War to Warwick". 2.warwick.ac.uk. University of Warwick. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/themes/07/gchq/. 
  3. Pidgeon, Geoffrey (2003). Station X — The Secret Wireless War. Universal Publishing Solutions Online Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84375-252-3.