Place:Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, England

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NameEdlesborough
Alt namesEddinbergesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 43
Eddlesboroughsource: Family History Library Catalog
Edinbergesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 42
TypeVillage
Coordinates51.85°N 0.583°W
Located inBuckinghamshire, England
Contained Places
Unknown
Northall
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Edlesborough is a village within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is within the civil parish of Edlesborough Northall and Dagnall. Edlesborough is also adjacent to the village of Eaton Bray over the county boundary in Bedfordshire, about three miles WSW of Dunstable.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Eadwulf's barrow'. It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Eddinberge. The village was once a centre for the straw plait industry. "RAF Edlesborough" was a radio station near Dagnall.

Edlesborough School is a community primary school, which takes children from the age of four through to the age of eleven. The school has approximately 250 pupils. The nearest secondary school is The Cottesloe School in Wing.

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