Wotton Underwood

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Wotton Underwood
Wotton Underwood shown within Buckinghamshire
OS grid reference	SP6816
Parish	Wotton Underwood
District	Aylesbury Vale
Shire county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	AYLESBURY
Postcode district	HP18
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Buckingham
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Coordinates: 51°50′18″N 1°00′18″W / 51.838442, -1.005085

Wotton Underwood is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about three and a half miles west of Waddesdon, four miles north of Long Crendon.

The village name 'Wotton' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'farm near a wood'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Oltone, though earlier (in 848) it was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Wudotun. The affix 'Underwood' was added later to distinguish the village from other places also called Wotton. The affix means 'near the wood' and refers to the village's proximity to the ancient Bernwood Forest.

The present-day manor house in the village, Wotton House, dates from the early eighteenth century but has been much altered since, notably by John Soane in the 1820s.

South Pavilion, the former home of actor John Gielgud, was bought by Tony and Cherie Blair for £4m, in 2008.^[1]

The Brill Tramway, originally known as the Wotton Tramway and, from 1899, part of the Metropolitan Railway, which served the area, closed in 1935.