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Adstock

TitleAdstock

CountyBuckinghamshire

CoordinatesLat : 51.95 Lon : -0.9166667

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Description Incorrect Description? Tell Us!Adstock is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, about 3 miles north west of Winslow. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 415.

In the divisions of England which took place between 613 and 1017, Buckinghamshire was divided into eight Hundreds. The manor of Adstock originally formed part of the Votesdune Hundred, then merged into the Ashendon Hundred and was finally absorbed into the Buckingham Hundred. At that time it was surrounded by the Bernwood, one of the most important Royal Forests. At the end of the 10th century, Adstock formed a portion of the Lands of Godwine, Earl of Kent, whose second wife Gyen was the sister of Suen, King of Denmark.

After the Norman Conquest, its name was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Edestoche which is Anglo Saxon and means Eadda's Farm. Nearby Addington was named after the same person.

In the mid to late 11th century the manor of Adstock was given by William the Conqueror to his illegitimate son William Peverel, who was listed as its owner in 1086. This suggests that the manor was of some value, or that its previous owner was of some prominence in Anglo Saxon society.

The village received a charter to establish itself as a town briefly in 1665 so that a market could be held there. This was due to the majority of the people from the two local towns of Winslow and Buckingham being infected with bubonic plague. The charter was removed, however, in 1685 and Adstock was reinstated as a village rather than a town.

The parish church, which is dated 1597, is dedicated to St Cecilia.

Adstock had an outstation from the Bletchley Park codebreaking establishment, where some of the Bombes used to decode German Enigma messages in World War Two were located.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Adstock"

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Local Campsites

Toc H Rickmansworth Campsite is 6.08 Miles away
Cosgrove Leisure Park is 9.25 Miles away
Newport Pagnell Campsite is 12.69 Miles away

Local Tourist Attractions

Claydon House is 2.58 Miles away
Stowe House is 7.08 Miles away
WADDESDON MANOR is 7.5 Miles away
Ascott Estate is 9.55 Miles away
National Trust Kings Head Inn is 10.23 Miles away
Brackley Swimming Pool is 11.34 Miles away
Leighton Buzzard Railway Ltd is 11.59 Miles away
Middleton Swimming Pool is 12.62 Miles away

Local Golf Courses

Buckingham Golf Club is 5.33 Miles away
Aylesbury Vale Golf Club is 7.63 Miles away
Abbey Hill Golf Centre is 7.87 Miles away
Three Locks Golf Club is 9.29 Miles away
Aylesbury Golf Centre is 10 Miles away
Leighton Buzzard Golf Club is 10.66 Miles away
Woburn Golf Club is 11.03 Miles away
Weston Turville Golf Club is 11.6 Miles away
Magnolia Park Golf Club is 11.96 Miles away
Wavendon Golf Centre is 12.26 Miles away

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