Place:Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, England

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NameWhaddon
Alt namesWadonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 44
TypeVillage
Coordinates52.0°N 0.817°W
Located inBuckinghamshire, England
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Whaddon is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district, in Buckinghamshire.

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.

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