Hedsor

Hedsor

St Nicholas' parish church
Hedsor
Hedsor shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 95 [1]
OS grid reference SU9187
Civil parish
  • Hedsor
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town High Wycombe
Postcode district HP10
Post town Maidenhead
Postcode district SL6
Post town Bourne End
Postcode district SL8
Dialling code 01628
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament

Hedsor is a small village and civil parish in Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England, in the very south of the county, near the River Thames and Bourne End. It is in the civil parish of Wooburn.

The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "Hædde's cliff", referring to the position of the village on a cliff overlooking the Thames.

Hedsor House was the ancient seat of the de Hedsor family, who took their name from the village. They owned it at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. The modern manor house was built in 1778, and stands on a hill in the village with a commanding view of the Thames and of Berkshire.

In 1583 Roland Hynd built a new Tudor manor house at Hedsor which was badly damaged by fire in 1795 and eventually demolished in 1865. At about this time the fourth Lord Boston commissioned the architect James Knowles to design a new house at Hedsor.

Hedsor House remained as the Boston family's country house until early in the 20th century, during which time Queen Victoria was said to be a frequent visitor to the house and its beautiful surrounding parkland.

Roland Hynd had the Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas "re-edified" in 1608.

References

  1. ↑ Wycombe DC Parish Fact file 2001 Census Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.


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