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Maids Moreton

Village in Buckinghamshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Maids Moreton
static_image_name	Maids Moreton Church.JPG
static_image_caption	St. Edmund's Parish Church
coordinates
population	847
population_ref	(2011)
os_grid_reference	SP7035
civil_parish	Maids Moreton
unitary_england	Buckinghamshire
lieutenancy_england	Buckinghamshire
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	BUCKINGHAM
postcode_area	MK
postcode_district	MK18
dial_code	01280
constituency_westminster	Buckingham and Bletchley
website	Maids Moreton Parish Council

Maids Moreton is a village and civil parish in north-west Buckinghamshire, England, around 1 mi north of Buckingham. The village sits on top of a plateau overlooking Buckingham and is less than 1km away from the Foxcote Reservoir SSSI.

Description and history

The parish of Maids Moreton covers about 1365 acre of which 376 acre are arable, 786 acre permanent grass and 26 acre woods and plantations. The soil is mostly clay and gravel and the subsoil gravel.

The village lies along the Buckingham to Towcester road (A413). It contains many 17th-century houses and cottages with timber frames with brick or plaster filling and thatched roofs.

The 15th-century parish church of Saint Edmund is said to have been built by two maiden ladies of the Pever family hence the name "Maids' Moreton". The Maids' memorials are a wall painting over the north door and brasses on a slab just within the doorway.

The old post office, situated at the junction of Main Street with the A413, closed in the mid-1990s and is now a private house. The chapel (on the A413) was demolished in the early 1980s and the allotments next to the chapel were all used for new housing.

In October 2019, Ben Field was jailed for the murder of Maids Moreton resident Peter Farquhar in 2015. Field was also accused of attempted murder of another Maids Moreton resident, Ann Moore-Martin, but was found not guilty. The case was the centre of the 2023 BBC drama The Sixth Commandment.

As of June 2025, residents of Maids Moreton were contesting two greenfield planning applications to build 163 and 15 houses increasing the village size by 50%. David Wilson Homes, a subsidiary of Barrett Developments, were planning to build 163 houses in planning application 16/00151/AOP. This was challenged at Judicial Review in 2022, and successfully defended by the Buckinghamshire Council. The planning application is notable for having seven different sets of Biodiversity Net Gain figures.

School

Maids Moreton Church of England School is a mixed Church of England voluntary controlled primary school. The school takes children between the ages of four and seven and has about 50 pupils.

References

"Maids Moreton Parish".
(July 2024). "Location of Buckingham and Bletchley".
(18 October 2019). "Maids Moreton: Ben Field jailed for author's murder".
(13 June 2025). "‘It blasts out’: The sewage battle that could scupper Labour’s new homes plan". [[The Daily Telegraph]].

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