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.
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]
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