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Encyclopedia > Burston, Buckinghamshire

Burston is a small hamlet near Rowsham in Buckinghamshire about three miles north of Aylesbury. A hamlet is (usually — see below) a small settlement, too small or unimportant to be considered a village. ... Rowsham is a hamlet in the parish of Wingrave, in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... St Marys Church, Aylesbury Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in south central England. ...


Originally an Iron Age settlement, it was overlooked by a defensive position on high ground (Burston Hill). Today, Burston consists of a few farms, but in the valley below, earthworks of the old settlement remain. Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. ... In civil engineering, earthworks are engineering works created through the moving of massive quantities of soil or unformed stone. ...


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Open Directory - Regional:Europe:United Kingdom:England:Buckinghamshire (13532 words)
Administer by Buckinghamshire county council with 5 District Councils: Aylesbury Vale DC, Chiltern DC, South Buckinghamshire DC, Wycombe DC and Unitary Authority of Milton Keynes.
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Aston Abbotts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (233 words)
Aston Abbotts (or Aston Abbots) is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.
It is situated about four miles north of Aylesbury and three miles south west of Wing.
During the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Dr Edvard Beneš, the exiled President of Czechoslovakia, stayed at The Abbey in Aston Abbotts.
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