Whaddon, Buckinghamshire
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.
Whaddon Hall
Whaddon Hall, (the village manor) was once home to the Selby family, (before by ways and means his friend added Selby to his name of lownes,)whose ancestor William Lowndes built the larger and grander Winslow Hall. Both mansions are still private houses. During World War II Whaddon Hall served as headquarters of Section VIII (Communications) of MI6, under the command of Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry. In February 1940, the "Station X" wireless interception function was transferred here from Bletchley Park.[2]
References
- ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 census, Accessed 3 February 2013
- ^ Pidgeon, Geoffrey (2003). Station X - The Secret Wireless War. Universal Publishing Solutions Online Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84375-252-3.
External links
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