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Great Horwood

Village in Buckinghamshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Great Horwood
coordinates
civil_parish	Great Horwood
population	1,049
population_ref	(2011 Census)
unitary_england	Buckinghamshire
lieutenancy_england	Buckinghamshire
region	South East England
constituency_westminster	Buckingham and Bletchley
post_town	MILTON KEYNES
postcode_area	MK
postcode_district	MK17
dial_code	01296
os_grid_reference	SP770312

Great Horwood is a small village and civil parish within the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. At the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,049. It is about five miles ESE of Buckingham, six miles WSW of Milton Keynes.

History and locale

The name 'Horwood' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'muddy wood'. The affix 'Great' was added later to differentiate it from the adjacent village Little Horwood. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 792 the village was recorded as Horwudu.

The village was from ancient times on the periphery of the Whaddon Chase: royal hunting land that stretched across the north part of the Aylesbury Vale. In 1447 the village was granted Royal charter to hold a weekly market, thus becoming a market town. The rents from the market were collected by New College, Oxford. Great Horwood is no longer a market town. In 1996, the lordship of the manor of Great Horwood was sold by New College to D. Jackson "Jack" Smith, an American lawyer and former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

A hamlet within the parish border of Great Horwood is Singleborough.

Notable buildings

Both Great Horwood village itself and Singleborough have Conservation Areas and there are 46 Grade II listed buildings in the Parish. Great Horwood has two historic pubs: The Swan Inn on Winslow Road and The Crown, on the village green, which closed in 2019.

The parish church is dedicated to St James.

Great Horwood Church of England Combined School is a voluntary controlled Church of England primary school. The school is mixed, with approximately 160 pupils, aged between four and eleven. Its catchment area also includes the villages of Thornborough, Nash, Beachampton and Whaddon.

Pictures

Image:church great horwood.jpg|Great Horwood Church Image:gararge great horwood.jpg|Garages in Great Horwood Image:the swan great horwood.jpg|The Swan, Great Horwood Image:Great Horwood road 2007.jpg|Horses in the village

References

[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123925&c=Great+Horwood&d=16&e=62&g=6403857&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1359911148192&enc=1 Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census], Accessed 3 February 2013
(July 2024). "Location of Buckingham and Bletchley".
Moulding, Rod. (2012). "D. Jack Smith: Lord Of The Manor".
(4 August 2025). "The Swan Inn".
"The Crown".
"The Crown".

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