Calvert is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, England

England

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, near the village of Steeple Claydon

Steeple Claydon

Steeple Claydon is a village and also a civil parish within the district of Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire, England. It has an unusually high number of gingers, it is speculated that this is due to most people's mums also being their aunts. Steeple Claydon is located about four miles south of...

.

Originally named after a wealthy local family, the village was founded as a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in the Victorian era

Victorian era

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 to house workers for the brick

Brick

A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, usually laid using various kinds of mortar. It has been regarded as one of the longest lasting and strongest building materials used throughout history.-History:...

 works that were constructed in the area. The works have since been closed and turned into a nature reserve

Nature reserve

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 and landfill

Landfill

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. All that remains of the hamlet is a small group of red brick terrace houses.

In 1899 the Great Central Railway

Great Central Railway

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 built its main line to London Marylebone past the village and opened Calvert railway station

Calvert railway station

Calvert was a railway station at Calvert, Buckinghamshire on the former Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and London Marylebone. The station was opened in 1899 and closed in 1964...

. British Rail

British Rail

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ways closed the station in 1964.

Today a new housing estate

Housing estate

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 has been built called Calvert Green, greatly enlarging the village. In 2007 Calvert Green

Calvert Green

Calvert Green is a civil parish in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England. It was created in 2003 from parts of Charndon and Steeple Claydon civil parishes. The new housing estate is built upon an old brickworks and the village hall, in the centre of the development, was erected above the old...

 was detached from Charndon

Charndon

Charndon is a hamlet and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.The hamlet's toponym combines Brythonic and Old English origins, as is common with other places in this part of the country . It means "cairn hill", cairn being a Celtic word for a ceremonial hill or...

 and formed into a new civil parish.

Two of the former clay pits for the brickworks have become flooded. One is called Grebe Lake, and is used for boating

Boating

Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels , focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or water skiing...

, sailing

Sailing

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 and kayak

Kayak

A kayak is a small, relatively narrow, human-powered boat primarily designed to be manually propelled by means of a double blade paddle.The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each seating one paddler...

ing.

Another of the clay pits is now a landfill

Landfill

A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...

 site. Waste is collected from Bristol

Bristol

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, Bath and London each day and transported using rail via Aylesbury

Aylesbury railway station

Aylesbury railway station is a railway station in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England and is a major stop on the London to Aylesbury Line from Marylebone station via Amersham. It is 37.75 miles from Aylesbury Station to Marylebone Station...

 to Calvert. The site has a power station

Power station

A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....

 used to generate electricity

Electricity

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 from landfill gas

Biogas

Biogas typically refers to a gas produced by the biological breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Organic waste such as dead plant and animal material, animal dung, and kitchen waste can be converted into a gaseous fuel called biogas...

, capable of producing 15 MW.