Maids Moreton
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Maids Moreton is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale
district of northern Buckinghamshire
, England. The village is about 1 miles (1.6 km) north of Buckingham
. The village is contiguous with the Buckingham urban area and is thus often considered as a suburb.
The parish of Maids Moreton covers about 1365 acres (552.4 ha) of which 376 acres (152.2 ha) are arable, 786 acres (318.1 ha) permanent grass and 26 acres (10.5 ha) woods and plantations. The soil is mostly clay and gravel and the subsoil gravel.
The village lies along the Buckingham to Towcester
road (A413). It contains many 17th century houses and cottages of timber frames with brick or plaster filling and thatched roofs.
The 15th century Church of England parish church
of Saint Edmund
is said to have been built by two maiden ladies of the Pever family, whence the name "Maids' Moreton". The Maids' epitaphs are a wall painting over the north door and brasses on a slab just within the doorway.
The old Post Office
at the bottom of the village closed in the mid 1990s and is now a private house. The chapel (on the A413) was demolished in the early 1980s and the allotments next to the chapel were all used for new housing.
In 1847, George Lipscomb listed the following Rectors for Maids Moreton:
voluntary controlled
primary school in Maids Moreton. The school takes children between the ages of four and eight and has about 65 pupils.
Aylesbury Vale
The Aylesbury Vale is a large area of flat land mostly in Buckinghamshire, England. Its boundary is marked by Milton Keynes to the north, Leighton Buzzard and the Chiltern Hills to the east and south, Thame to the south and Bicester and Brackley to the west.The vale is named after Aylesbury, the...
district of northern 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. The village is about 1 miles (1.6 km) north of Buckingham
Buckingham
Buckingham is a town situated in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. The town has a population of 11,572 ,...
. The village is contiguous with the Buckingham urban area and is thus often considered as a suburb.
The parish of Maids Moreton covers about 1365 acres (552.4 ha) of which 376 acres (152.2 ha) are arable, 786 acres (318.1 ha) permanent grass and 26 acres (10.5 ha) woods and plantations. The soil is mostly clay and gravel and the subsoil gravel.
The village lies along the Buckingham to Towcester
Towcester
Towcester , the Roman town of Lactodorum, is a small town in south Northamptonshire, England.-Etymology:Towcester comes from the Old English Tófe-ceaster. Tófe refers to the River Tove; Bosworth and Toller compare it to the "Scandinavian proper names" Tófi and Tófa...
road (A413). It contains many 17th century houses and cottages of timber frames with brick or plaster filling and thatched roofs.
The 15th century Church of England parish church
Church of England parish church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, known as a parish.-Parishes in England:...
of Saint Edmund
Edmund the Martyr
St Edmund the Martyr was a king of East Anglia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.D'Evelyn, Charlotte, and Mill, Anna J., , 1956. Reprinted 1967...
is said to have been built by two maiden ladies of the Pever family, whence the name "Maids' Moreton". The Maids' epitaphs are a wall painting over the north door and brasses on a slab just within the doorway.
The old Post Office
Post office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
at the bottom of the village closed in the mid 1990s and is now a private house. The chapel (on the A413) was demolished in the early 1980s and the allotments next to the chapel were all used for new housing.
In 1847, George Lipscomb listed the following Rectors for Maids Moreton:
- 1241 Robert
- 12—Richard de Osgotsby
- 1291 Roger Inge
- 1294 Peter Passelewe
- 1303 Richard Walney
- 1327 Adam Skiret de Bucks
- 1337 Gilbert de Chishul
- 1338 John de Pacham
- 1340 John de Mulnho
- 1349 John de Edynton
- 1352 William de Ashlee
- 1370 William de Kele
- 1376 Richard Freeman
- 1412 John Doune
- 1420 Richard Ward
- 14—William Sandbacke
- 1465 John Gyton
- 1470 William Wilkynson
- 1483 William Litchfield
- 1501 John Dely
- 1503 Thomas Fox
- 1531 William Molineaux, A.M.
- 1549 Richard Davis
- 1554 Christopher Malton
- 1557 Richard Bradborne, B.D.
- 1558 Peter Head
- 1559 Richard Davis, restored
- 1563 John Hodgison
- 1566 John Smith
- 1602 William Gee, or Lee
- 1603 George Bate, A.M.
- 1663 Matthew Bate
- 1665 Thomas Disney, A.M.
- 1665 Francis Atterbury, A.M.
- 1671 Matthew Bate, A.M.
- 1685 William Lea, A.M.
- 1699 Matthew Bate, LL.B.
- 1743 John Sandwell, Clerk
- 1752 William Hutton, LL.B.
- 1780 Richard Withnell, A.M.
- 1790 James Long Hutton, A.M.
School
Maids Moreton Church of England School is a mixed Church of EnglandChurch of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
voluntary controlled
Voluntary controlled school
A voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in which a foundation or trust has some formal influence in the running of the school...
primary school in Maids Moreton. The school takes children between the ages of four and eight and has about 65 pupils.