Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire
Coordinates: 51°51′14″N 1°03′44″W / 51.8539°N 1.0622°W
| Ludgershall | |
 The former schoolhouse, now a private home |
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 Ludgershall
Ludgershall shown within Buckinghamshire |
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| Population | 402 (United Kingdom Census 2001[1]) |
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| OS grid reference | SP661174 |
| Civil parish | Ludgershall |
| District | Aylesbury Vale |
| Shire county | Buckinghamshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Aylesbury |
| Postcode district | HP18 |
| Dialling code | 01296 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Buckingham |
| List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire | |
Ludgershall is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is near the boundary with Oxfordshire, about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south-east of Bicester and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Waddesdon.
The toponym is Old English in origin, and is said to mean "nook with a trapping spear"[2] but this is disputed.[3] It occurs in more than one place in England (see Ludgershall). The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Litlegarsele.
Henry II granted land in the parish to the priory of Santingfeld in Picardy, France. It is possible that a hospital was founded on this land, although it is uncertain. In the reign of Henry VI, when all alien church possessions were seized by the Crown, this land was given to King's College, Cambridge.[4][5]
Ludgershall was once home to the theologian John Wyclif.
[edit] References
- ^ "Area: Ludgershall CP (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792062&c=Ludgershall&d=16&e=15&g=424229&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216513534887&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ Tengstrand, Erik (1940). Genitival Composition in Old English Place-names. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells. p. 219.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 306–307. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- ^ "Hospitals: Ludgershall". Victoria County History, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 1. British History Online. 1905. p. 395. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40327. Retrieved 30 October 2007.
- ^ "King’s College Estates Records" (Microsoft Word document). King's College, University of Cambridge. http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library/archives/college/hlfproject/estates/manors/ludgershall.doc. Retrieved 30 October 2007.
[edit] Sources & further reading
- Page, William, ed. (1905). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 1. pp. 395.
- Page, William, ed. (1927). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 4. pp. 68–73.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973) [1966]. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 196–197. ISBN 0 14 071019 1.
[edit] External links
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