Maids Moreton
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| Maids Moreton | |
  Maids Moreton shown within Buckinghamshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| District | Aylesbury Vale |
| Shire county | Buckinghamshire |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BUCKINGHAM |
| Postcode district | MK18 |
| Dialling code | 01280 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Buckingham |
| List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire | |
Coordinates: Maids Moreton is a village in northern Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Buckingham with a population of around 500 people. The village is continuous with the Buckingham urban area and is thus often considered as a suburb.
The parish of Maids Moreton covers about 1365 acres (6 km²), of which 376 acres (1.5 km²) are arable, 786 acres (3.2 km²) permanent grass and 26 acres (0.1 km²) 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 of timber frames with brick or plaster filling and thatched roofs.
It has a 15th century church dedicated to St Edmund, said to have been built by two maiden ladies of the Pever family, whence the name Maids' Moreton. The Maids are commemorated by a wall painted epitaph over the North Door and by brasses on a slab, just within the doorway.
The old Post Office at the bottom of the village closed in the mid 1980s and is now a 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 1847, George Lipscomb listed the following Rectors for Maids Moreton:
- 1241 Robert
- 12-- Richard de Osgotsby
- 1291 Roger Inge
- 1294 Peter Passelewe
- 1303 Richard Walney
- 1327 Adam Skiret de Bucks
- 1337 Gilbert de Chishul
- 1338 John de Pacham
- 1340 John de Mulnho
- 1349 John de Edynton
- 1352 William de Ashlee
- 1370 William de Kele
- 1376 Richard Freeman
- 1412 John Doune
- 1420 Richard Ward
- 14-- William Sandbacke
- 1465 John Gyton
- 1470 William Wilkynson
- 1483 William Litchfield
- 1501 John Dely
- 1503 Thomas Fox
- 1531 William Molineaux, A.M.
- 1549 Richard Davis
- 1554 Christopher Malton
- 1557 Richard Bradborne, B.D.
- 1558 Peter Head
- 1559 Richard Davis, restored
- 1563 John Hodgison
- 1566 John Smith
- 1602 William Gee, or Lee
- 1603 George Bate, A.M.
- 1663 Matthew Bate
- 1665 Thomas Disney, A.M.
- 1665 Francis Atterbury, A.M.
- 1671 Matthew Bate, A.M.
- 1685 William Lea, A.M.
- 1699 Matthew Bate, LL.B.
- 1743 John Sandwell, Clerk
- 1752 William Hutton, LL.B.
- 1780 Richard Withnell, A.M.
- 1790 James Long Hutton, A.M.
[edit] Education
Maids Moreton Church of England School is a mixed Church of England primary school in Maids Moreton. It is a voluntary controlled school, which takes children from the age of 4 through to the age of 8. The school has about 45 pupils.
