Turville

Turville
Houses in Turville, with Cobstone Windmill in the background
Turville  Turville shown within Buckinghamshire
Population	311 [1]
OS grid reference	SU765915
Civil parish	Turville
District	Wycombe
Shire county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HENLEY-ON-THAMES
Postcode district	RG9
Dialling code	01491
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Wycombe
List of places UK England Buckinghamshire

Coordinates: 51°36′49″N 0°53′36″W / 51.6137°N 0.8932°W / 51.6137; -0.8932

Turville is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills, five miles west of High Wycombe and five miles north of Henley-on-Thames. The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means 'dry field'. It was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 796 as Thyrefeld.

The manor of Turville once belonged to the abbey at St Albans, but was seized by the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1547. The manor house has since been rebuilt as Turville Park. The present incumbent of the manor is Lord Sainsbury.

Turville was home to Ellen Sadler, who fell asleep in 1871, aged eleven, and purportedly did not wake for nine years, becoming known as "The Sleeping Girl of Turvile". The case attracted international attention from newspapers, medical professionals and the public. Rumours persist in the region that Sadler was visited by royalty for a "laying on of hands".^[2][3]

The local pub is the Bull and Butcher.^[4]

Turville Hill is a Site of Special Scientific Importance, and it includes Cobstone Windmill.

Notable people

• Geoffrey de Turville (died 1250), Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• Charles François Dumouriez (1739-1823), French royalist general
• Ellen Sadler (1859-1901), tourist attraction
• Lord Sainsbury of Turville (born 1940), businessman, politician, and philanthropist
• Sir John Mortimer, (1923-2009), Barrister, playwright, novelist

Location for filming

The village was the location for outdoor scenes in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. In the series, the church of St Mary the Virgin was renamed "St Barnabus" (sic).

The 1942 Ealing Studios film Went the Day Well?, in which German paratroopers invade a small English village, was filmed in Turville, as were many of the scenes from the 1963 comedy film Father Came Too!. Additionally many of the outdoor scenes of television show Goodnight Mr Tom were filmed in Turville, as was the dream scene in Bride and Prejudice, and a brief scene from I Capture the Castle.

Scenes have also been shot in the village for Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Marple, the 2008 Christmas special of Jonathan Creek, the British drama An Education and the 2009 BBC adaptation of The Day Of The Triffids. Cobstone Windmill in the neighbouring parish of Ibstone, used in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, overlooks the village of Turville. Also Goodnight Mr. Tom was shot here

The music video for the song Apparition by Stealing Sheep was shot in the village.^[5]

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Turville.

• Map sources for Turville

References

1. ↑ Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census
2. ↑ Barham, Tony (1973). Witchcraft in the Thames Valley. Spurbooks. pp. 20–27. ISBN 9780902875371.
3. ↑ Staff (November 6, 2009). "Our very own 'Sleeping Beauty'". Bucks Free Press (Gannett Company).
4. ↑ The Bull and Butcher website
5. ↑ "Let mysterious Morris dancers take you elsewhere in this bizarre music video". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2015-10-20. 

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