Terrick is 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 parish

Parish

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 of Ellesborough

Ellesborough

Ellesborough is a village and civil parish in Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is at the foot of the Chiltern Hills just to the south of the Vale of Aylesbury, two miles from Wendover and five miles from Aylesbury. It lies between Wendover and the village of Little Kimble...

, in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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, England

England

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. It is located in the north of the parish, where the lane leading to Chequers

Chequers

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 meets the main road from Stoke Mandeville

Stoke Mandeville

Stoke Mandeville is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district to the south-east of Aylesbury in the county of Buckinghamshire, England. Although a separate civil parish, the village falls within the Aylesbury Urban Area...

 to Little Kimble.

The hamlet name is Anglo Saxon

Old English language

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 in origin, and means 'Teofer's farm'.

Today the community of Terrick is small, but close-knit. Terrick is the location of the Chiltern Brewery Company, who have operated in the hamlet for thirty years. The hamlet name lends itself to Terrick Truckle a cheese

Cheese

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 that they produce; and Terrick Beef, traditional English meat

Meat

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 produced by a local farmer

Farmer

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.