Aston Clinton

Aston Clinton

Aston Clinton from the church tower

The Old School
Aston Clinton
Aston Clinton shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 3,682 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference SP8012
Civil parish
  • Aston Clinton
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Aylesbury
Postcode district HP22
Dialling code 01296
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament
Website http://www.astonclinton.org/

Aston Clinton is a village and civil parish close to the main A41 road in Buckinghamshire, England between Tring and Aylesbury. The parish covers 3,809 acres (1,541 ha) and is about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Aylesbury. The village is at the foot of the chalk escarpment of the Chiltern Hills at the junction of the pre-historic track the Icknield Way with Akeman Street Roman road. It is bisected both at the northern end of the parish by the Aylesbury Arm and in the centre of the parish by the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

Early history

It is believed that the village started at the crossing of two Roman roads, Akeman Street and Icknield Way,[2] both of which are still main roads in the village. After the fall of the Roman Empire, it became a Saxon settlement and remains of a Saxon cemetery were found during the construction of the Aston Clinton Bypass.

Before the Norman conquest of England in 1066 the settlement was held by Wlwen probably under patronage of King Edward the Confessor. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 where in Old English it was called Estone, which means "eastern estate".

The manor, later to be known as Aston Clinton, was for a short period after 1100 under the control of Edward de Salisbury, who was King Henry I's standard-bearer. In 1217 King Henry III gave it to Sir William de Farendon. However, by 1237 the manor was owned by the de Clinton family, hence the name at that time of Aston de Clinton. William de Clinton separated out from Aston Clinton a new manor called Chivery as a dowry for his daughter Alice. Sometime after 1239, King Edward I granted the estates to the Montacutes, who were the ancestors of the Earls of Salisbury. Their descendant the Countess of Salisbury was beheaded by King Henry VIII in 1541. Successive families owned the manor, passing by marriage from the Hastings to the Barringtons, Gerards, and then to Lord Lake of Aston Clinton later to become Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake.

Composer and lutenist Daniel Bacheler was born in the village in 1572.

Air accident

On 22 September 1934, a twin-engined biplane named Youth of New Zealand of Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Displays, crashed into a field near the canal at Aston Clinton.[3] The Youth of New Zealand had just departed from Heston Aerodrome after being refuelled when it crashed, killing all four crew. The probable cause was the failure of a bolt through metal fatigue.[4]

Today

The modern parish of Aston Clinton was created in 1934. Of the other medieval manors:- Dundridge; Chivery; St Leonards and Vaches, historically all closely associated with Aston Clinton, only Chivery and Vaches have remained distinct parts of Aston Clinton, which now forms part of Aylesbury Vale District. Dundridge manor became part of the ecclesiastical parish of St Leonards which has itself since 1934 become part of the parish of Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards.

Aston Clinton Civil Parish is bordered by other civil parishes (see gallery below) to the:

St. Michael and All Angels parish church dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

The Aston Clinton A41 Bypass opened on 3 October 2003.

The car manufacturer Aston Martin took one part of its name from the village combining it with that of its co-founder Lionel Martin. It had great success in the Aston Clinton Hillclimb competition up nearby Aston Hill. A plaque now marks the site.

In the centre of the village is the Anthony Hall, a concert hall which was donated to the village by the widow of Anthony Nathan de Rothschild.

Aston Clinton School is a primary school that takes pupils between the ages of 4 and 11. The school has approximately 275 pupils. The school badge includes the five arrows from the Rothschild coat of arms, because the family built the first schools in the village.

The TV programme Hotel Babylon was filmed in Aston Clinton.[5][6]

Rock band Marillion were originally formed in the village in 1979 as Silmarillion.

Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber lists Aston Clinton as his home in England where he lives with his partner Ann Neal.[7]

There are several motor vehicle garages in Aston Clinton, Triumph[8] which is for motorbikes only and JP Marques who sold second hand cars, however JP Marques main garage shut and has now been demolished to make way for six new homes and the company has now moved locations further east in the village and now specialises in Minis.

In 2009 a new Household waste and recycling centre was built to the north Aston Clinton, north of the A41,[9] The recycling centre is shown, highlighted in green, on the map below, in the next section.

In 2011 a new industrial park opened in Aston Clinton called Halton Brook Business Park, designed and developed by Horstonbridge which replaced an old dairy, demolished in 2006, that once stood in the same location. Two companies currently occupy Halton Brook, Zethon & DeSoutter Medical. Halton Brook is located on the map below.

Demographics

According to the 2001 census there are 1,402 households in Aston Clinton with a Population of 3,542: 1,725 males and 1,817 females.[10]

In accordance with the government plans to boost housing supply, due to the rising population, there has been an increase in new housing developments in Aston Clinton: The Burnhams (19 dwellings),[11] Stratford Close (20 dwellings),[12] 28 flats near the surgery,[13] four detached houses to the south of London Road[14] Pavilion Gardens (14 dwellings)[15] and The Willows (three large detached houses).[16]

Geography

Aston Clinton is located north of the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, to the east of Aylesbury.

Neighbouring Towns or Villages
 Bierton / Hulcott Wingrave / Puttenham Buckland / Wilstone
Aylesbury / Bedgrove Tring / Drayton Beauchamp
   Aston Clinton  
Weston Turville / Stoke Mandeville Wendover / Halton St Leonards / Chivery

Transport

Several bus routes serve Aston Clinton with connections to Aylesbury, Watford, Leighton Buzzard and Luton operated by Arriva, Redline Buses and Red Kite Buses.

Arla Foods UK Dairy

Arla Foods UK intends to build a new £150m, one billion litre liquid milk processing facility to the north of the village of Aston Clinton (still within the CP), on a 70-acre site north of the A41.[17] The dairy should have created almost 700 skilled jobs for the Aylesbury area but largely went to imported foreign workers instead.[18] Arla announced that the dairy would be the first zero carbon milk processing facility in the world.[19] Planning permission to the second of four planning applications was granted by Aylesbury Vale District Council on 23 September 2011. Permission was subject to a decision by the UK Government and negotiations between the parties over road and infrastructure improvements.[20][21][22]

The development has been subject to controversy with objections raised through 850 letters and a 1000+ petition by local residents. Additionally, Aston Clinton, Buckland and Bierton with Broughton Parish Councils have also objected to the plans, expressing major concerns about traffic fears and damage to the landscape among their concerns. However, both Aylesbury Town Council and Stoke Mandeville Parish Council voted in favour of the development, citing the benefits to the local economy through both temporary and over 150 additional permanent jobs.[23]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 2 February 2013
  2. ↑ "Aston Clinton Home Page". Archived from the original on 6 July 2008.
  3. ↑ "Air Crash Victims". News. The Times (46868). London. 25 September 1934. col E, p. 9.
  4. ↑ "Four Victims of Air Crash Ministry Expert's Theory, A Fractured Bolt". News. The Times (46904). London. 6 November 1934. col D, p. 16.
  5. ↑ "Location not so glam for drama". hemeltoday.co.uk. Johnston Press Digital Publishing. 14 February 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2008.
  6. ↑ "Hotel Babylon". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 8 February 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2008.
  7. ↑ "Ask the Expert – Red Bull's Mark Webber". Ask the Expert. Formula One Administration Ltd. 27 May 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  9. ↑ "Household waste and recycling centre, College Road North exit, off the A41 Aston Clinton bypass". AVDC. 7 October 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013.
  10. ↑ "Check Browser Settings". statistics.gov.uk.
  11. ↑ "00/00431/APP- Erection of 19 No. dwellings – 10–50 Weston Road Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire". aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk.
  12. ↑ "04/02275/APP – Demolition of existing dwelling, erection of 1 replacement dwelling and 19 new dwellings, parking and garaging provision and creation of new access road – 76 And Land To Rear of 52 To 76 Weston Road Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire". aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk.
  13. ↑ "01/02773/APP – Erection of 28 flats together with roads, sewers and ancillary works – Land Adjacent To Aston Clinton Surgery Lower Icknield Way Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire". aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk.
  14. ↑ "99/01648/APP – Demolition of existing buildings & erection of 4no detached dwellings with garages – Former 31 London Road Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire HP22 5HG". aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk.
  15. ↑ "09/02027/APP – Erection of 14 dwellings with associated parking and formation of new access – Former Bell Inn Pavilion London Road Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire HP22 5HP". aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk.
  16. ↑ "09/01984/APP- Erection of two detached dwellings – Land To Rear of 1 And 3 Stablebridge Road Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire HP22 5ND". aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk.
  17. ↑ Arla Foods website Archived 27 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 26 September 2011
  18. ↑ Jones, Alan (23 November 2009). "700 jobs to go at Lloyds". The Independent. London.
  19. ↑ "FG Insight – 404". FG Insight. Archived from the original on 18 November 2010.
  20. ↑ Arla Foods Buckinghamshire dairy plan approved BBC News online, Retrieved 26 September 2011
  21. ↑ the plant the company is in a position for the dairy to be operational by the end of 2012Bucks Herald, Retrieved 26 September 2011]
  22. ↑ Arla Foods website, Retrieved 26 September 2011
  23. ↑ Official report urges politicians to give megadairy the green light Bucks Herald online, Accessed, 26 September 2011
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