Beachampton
| Beachampton | |
|  Parish church of the Assumption | |
|   Beachampton | |
| Population | 184 [1] | 
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| OS grid reference | SP7737 | 
| Civil parish | Beachampton | 
| District | Aylesbury Vale | 
| Shire county | Buckinghamshire | 
| Region | South East | 
| Country | England | 
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | 
| Post town | Milton Keynes | 
| Postcode district | MK19 | 
| Dialling code | 01908 | 
| Police | Thames Valley | 
| Fire | Buckinghamshire | 
| Ambulance | South Central | 
| EU Parliament | South East England | 
| UK Parliament | Buckingham | 
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Coordinates: 52°01′30″N 0°52′30″W / 52.025°N 0.875°W
Beachampton is a village and civil parish beside the River Great Ouse in the Aylesbury Vale district 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". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Bechentone.[2]
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.[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.
The oldest prts of the Church of England parish church of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin date from 14th century.[3] The Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street rebuilt upper part of the bell-tower in 1873-74.[4]
References
Sources
- Page, William (ed.) (1927). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 4. pp. 149–153. available online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62556
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973) [1960]. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.
External links
 Media related to Beachampton at Wikimedia Commons
 Media related to Beachampton at Wikimedia Commons
