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Granborough

Village in Buckinghamshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Granborough
static_image_name	Granborough Village Hall - geograph.org.uk - 606196.jpg
static_image_caption	Granborough Village Hall
static_image_2_name	St. John the Baptist, Granborough - geograph.org.uk - 606027.jpg
static_image_2_caption	St. John the Baptist Church
coordinates
population	545
population_ref	(2011)
os_grid_reference	SP768250
civil_parish	Granborough
unitary_england	Buckinghamshire
lieutenancy_england	Buckinghamshire
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	BUCKINGHAM
postcode_area	MK
postcode_district	MK18
dial_code	01296
constituency_westminster	Buckingham and Bletchley
website	Granborough Parish Council

Granborough (previously Grandborough) is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is around 5 mi north of Waddesdon and 7 mi south-east of Buckingham. The nearest town is Winslow.

The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means 'green hill'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Grenesberga.

Anciently the manor of Granborough was owned by the abbey at St Albans, though in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1547 ownership passed automatically to the Crown.

The ancient parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, was demolished during the English Civil War, though was rebuilt shortly after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1685.

The village is still one of the possessions of the Crown.

There is a public house, logically called the Crown. After the parish church the most interesting building is the neat half-timbered Arts and Crafts village hall. Granborough still has very many thatched cottages and houses, many of them in Green End, a hamlet attached to the village.

References

"Granborough Parish".
(July 2024). "Location of Buckingham and Bletchley".

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