December
1244 A.D. Chetode Priory,
Buckinghamshire, UK—Augustinian Regulars;
Founded by Ralph de Norwich;
Reduced to Cell, 1460; Priory
Church Became Parochial Parish, 1480, Called St. Mary and St. Nicholas; Priory
Dissolved 1535
Chetwode
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Chetwode is a civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. The
parish is bounded to the southwest and southeast by a brook called The Birne,
which here also forms part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire.
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Toponym
In ancient times[when?] the area was known simply as Cet, the Brythonic word for "woodland". Following the settlement of Anglo Saxon tribes in the area, the suffix "wood" was added to the name to form a compound word of British and Old English origins: a common occurrence in this part of the country (for example, Brill). In AD 949 the area was known as Cetwuda.
Manor
There is a manor at Chetwode that stayed in the same family from the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 through to the 1960s. The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Robert
de Thain held the manor from Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.
Priory and parish church
In 1244 Sir Ralphe de Norwich
founded an Augustinian priory at Chetwode. In 1460, owing to its poverty, the priory was dissolved and
annexed to the nearby Nutley Abbey in Long Crendon. This led to the first recognition of Chetwode as
a village rather than just a priory.
The Church of England parish
church of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas and was once part of the Augustinian priory church. However the parish
church had become ruinous in the 15th century and this building replaced it as
the parish church in 1480. The stonework is a fine example of the work of the
13th century, particularly the sedilia, the east window of five lancets and the triple-lancet window on the south side, with stained glass of the
13th and 14th centuries. The 14th century north chapel later became the manor
pew.[2]
Economic history
In 1899 the Great Central Railway opened its main line to London through the southwestern part of the parish. The
nearest station was Finmere for Buckingham, which was just over the Oxfordshire county
boundary on the main road betweenBuckingham and Bicester and just over 1 mile (1.6 km) from Chetwode.
The station was 5 miles (8 km) from Buckingham, more than 1 mile
(1.6 km) from Finmere and was actually in Shelswell parish next to the village of Newton Purcell. In about
1922 the Great Central renamed the station Finmere. British Railways closed the station in 1963 and the line in 1966.
See also
References
1. Jump up^ "Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved
3 February 2013.
Sources and further reading
- Betjeman, John (1968). Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches. The South. London: Collins. p. 126.
- Page, W.H., ed. (1905). A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria County History 1. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 380–381.
- Page, W.H., ed. (1927). A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria County History 4. pp. 163–168.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973) [1966]. Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 92–93.ISBN 0-14-071019-1.
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