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Aston Abbotts
Aston Abbotts
	St James the Great Parish Church
	Aston Abbotts Location within Buckinghamshire
Population	426 (2021, including Burston)[citation needed]
OS grid reference	SP8420
Civil parish	Aston Abbotts;
Unitary authority	Buckinghamshire;
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	AYLESBURY
Postcode district	HP22
Dialling code	01296
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Buckingham;
Website	Aston Abbotts
	List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 51°52′22″N 0°46′13″W / 51.8729°N 0.7702°W

Aston Abbotts or Aston Abbots is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Aylesbury and 2.5 miles (4 km) south-west of Wing. The parish includes the hamlet of Burston and had a population of 426 at the 2021 Census.

Manor

"Aston" is a common toponym in England, derived from the Old English for "eastern estate".^[1] The suffix "Abbotts" refers to the former abbey in the village, which until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century was the country home of the abbots of St Albans in Hertfordshire. The present house called The Abbey, Aston Abbotts was largely built in the late 18th century and altered in the early 19th century.^[2]

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of St James the Great has a late 15th or early 16th century Perpendicular Gothic^[3] west tower, but the rest of the building was demolished in 1865 and replaced with a new nave and chancel designed by the Oxford Diocesan Architect G.E. Street and completed in 1866.^[4] The church is a Grade II* listed building.^[4]

The church tower has a ring of six bells. Anthony Chandler of Drayton Parslow^[5] cast the third and fifth bells in the Commonwealth period in 1652.^[6] Edward Hall, also of Drayton Parslow,^[5] cast the fourth bell in 1739 and the tenor in 1740.^[6] John Taylor & Co of Loughborough^[5] cast the treble and second bells in 1929.^[6]

The polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross is buried in the churchyard of St James the Great.

Czechoslovak government-in-exile

In the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Dr Edvard Beneš, the exiled President of Czechoslovakia, stayed at The Abbey in Aston Abbotts.^[7]^[8] His advisers and secretaries (called his Chancellery) stayed in nearby Wingrave, and his military intelligence staff stayed at nearby Addington. President Beneš gave a bus shelter to the villages of Aston Abbotts and Wingrave in 1944. It is on the A418 road between the two villages.^[9]

Amenities

The village has a public house, the Royal Oak.^[10] Aston Abbotts had a village shop, but this closed in 2005.^[10]

The nearest shop, post office and school are 1 mile east of Aston Abbotts in the village of Wingrave, with Wingrave offering a Church of England First and Middle school. The nearest secondary school and doctors surgery are 2 miles north east of Aston Abbotts in the village of Wing.

There are regular bus services to Aston Abbotts from Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard.

References

^ Mills, A. D. (1 January 2011), "Aston", A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-632, ISBN 978-0-19-960908-6, retrieved 26 July 2021
^ Historic England (18 October 1966). "The Abbey (1116025)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
^ Pevsner 1960, p. 52.
^ ^a ^b Historic England (18 October 1966). "Church of St James (1116023)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dovemaster (31 October 2012). "Bell Founders". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Davies, Peter (19 September 2009). "Aston Abbotts S James". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
^ "Stage 2 – Northampton, Aston Abbotts - 22 January 2020". www.mzv.cz. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
^ "A look back at Buckinghamshire's strong Czech connection". Bucks Free Press. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
^ Roberts, Peter. "Bus shelter with an unusual history". Geograph.
^ ^a ^b "Our village – Facilities, Industry and Threats". Aston Abbotts. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

Sources and further reading

Page, W.H., ed. (1925). "Aston Abbots". A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 3. Victoria County History. pp. 328–330.
Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 52. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.
Rees, Neil (2005). The Secret History of The Czech Connection – The Czechoslovak Government in Exile in London and Buckinghamshire. ISBN 0-9550883-0-5.^{[page needed]}

External links

[1] Mills, A. D. (1 January 2011), "Aston", A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-632, ISBN 978-0-19-960908-6, retrieved 26 July 2021

[2] Historic England (18 October 1966). "The Abbey (1116025)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

[FOOTNOTEPevsner196052-3] Pevsner 1960, p. 52.

[EH-4] Historic England (18 October 1966). "Church of St James (1116023)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

[DoveFounders-5] Dovemaster (31 October 2012). "Bell Founders". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

[DoveDetails-6] Davies, Peter (19 September 2009). "Aston Abbotts S James". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

[7] "Stage 2 – Northampton, Aston Abbotts - 22 January 2020". www.mzv.cz. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

[8] "A look back at Buckinghamshire's strong Czech connection". Bucks Free Press. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

[BusShelter-9] Roberts, Peter. "Bus shelter with an unusual history". Geograph.

[FIT-10] "Our village – Facilities, Industry and Threats". Aston Abbotts. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

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Aston Abbotts

Manor

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Czechoslovak government-in-exile

Amenities

References

Sources and further reading

External links

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