Place:Beachampton, Buckinghamshire, England

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NameBeachampton
Alt namesBecentonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 42
Bechentonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 42
TypeVillage
Coordinates52.017°N 0.867°W
Located inBuckinghamshire, England
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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Beachampton is a village and civil parish beside the River Great Ouse in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about east of Buckingham and a similar distance west of Milton Keynes.

The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "home farm by a stream". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Bechentone.

There is no documentary evidence for the tradition that Hall Farm in Beachampton was the home of Catherine Parr when she was married to King Henry VIII.

Parts of the village stand on high ground, but most of the village is prone to regular flooding by the stream that runs through the village, a tributary of the River Ouse.

The family name "Beachampton" originates in this village, and was first recorded in manorial records in 1175 when Osmer de Beachampton was a tenant here.

The oldest prts of the Church of England parish church of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin date from 14th century.[1] The Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street rebuilt upper part of the bell-tower in 1873-74.

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