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Beachampton is a village and civil parish beside the River Great Ouse in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Buckingham and a similar distance west of Milton Keynes.
History
The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "home farm by a stream".[2] In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Bechentone.[3]
Parts of the village stand on high ground, but most of the village is prone to regular flooding by the stream that runs through the village, a tributary of the River Ouse.
The family name Beachampton originates in this village, and was first recorded in manorial records in 1175 when Osmer de Beachampton was a tenant here. There is no documentary evidence for the tradition that Hall Farm in Beachampton was the home of Catherine Parr when she was married to King Henry VIII.[4]
Beachampton Hall, a Grade II* listed manor house, has elements dating from the 15th century.[5] The present house was probably built by the Piggot family: Sir Thomas Piggot hosted a 1603 visit of Queen Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I and VI; the gardens were laid out at this time.[5]
The Church of England parish church of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin dates from the 14th century,[4] and is grade II* listed.[6] G.E. Street, a Gothic Revival architect, rebuilt upper part of the bell-tower in 1873–74.[7] It has a large monument to Simon Benett Bt. (1682).[4][6] The Bennetts (or Bennets) have been Lords of Beachampton (styled Lord de Beachampton) and of the neighbouring manor of Calverton since 1616.[8] Both these manorial lordship titles, though not the lands, remain in the possession of the Bennett family to the present day.[9][10]
The parish has a further nine listed buildings and structures.[11]
References
- ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013
- ^ "Key to English place names". Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
- ^ Page (1927), p. 149.
- ^ a b c Page (1927), pp. 149–153.
- ^ a b Historic England (25 September 1951). "Beachampton Hall (1214834)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ a b Historic England (13 July 1966). "CHURCH OF ST MARY (1288408)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ Pevsner (1973), p. 61.
- ^ Taylor, John. "Lady Grace Bennett - butchered by the butcher". Milton Keynes Heritage Association. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ "Beachampton Manor". The National Archives (United Kingdom).
- ^ "The Manorial Register". The Manorial Society of Great Britain.
- ^ "Search results: Beachampton". Historic England. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
Sources
- Page, William, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Beachampton". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol. 4. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. pp. 149–153.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973) [1960]. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.
External links
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