The Aylesbury duck is a recent addition to the duck family, bred mainly for its meat within the last 200 years. The breed was developed by the Weston family of Aylesbury and is now farmed all over the world as the quality of meat obtained from the breed is particularly high.
The Aylesbury duck is the heraldic emblem of the town of Aylesbury, leant itself to the best bitter of the Aylesbury Brewery Company and to two pub names in the town. Its plumage is almost invariably white, with a yellow bill and either black or yellow feet.
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, in south central England, with a population of around 61,000.
Aylesbury was declared the county town of Buckinghamshire in 1529 by King Henry VIII: the Lord of Aylesbury Manor was the father of the infamous Anne Boleyn and it is rumoured that the change was made by the king in order to curry favour with the manor.
Aylesbury's population is soon to increase further during the years 2003 and 2005 due to the inclusion of a new housing estate designed to cater for 8000 people on the North side of Aylesbury sandwiched between the A41 (Akeman Street) and the A413.
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