Whaddon

Built-Up Area: Whaddon
Parish/Community: Whaddon
District/Borough: Aylesbury Vale
County: Buckinghamshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°0'1"N 0°49'41"W
Eastings/Northings: 480544, 234193
OS Grid: SP805341
Mapcode Local: GBR D0L.FG2
Mapcode Global: VHDT5.LZJC

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Whaddon within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Whaddon in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Whaddon.-- par., township, and vil., in N. of Bucks - par., 3772 ac., pop. 745; township, 2525 ac., pop. 405; vil., 4½ miles SE. of Stony Stratford; P.O.; in vicinity is Whaddon Hall, seat.

Whaddon in the Domesday Book

A village in Mursley hundred, in the county of Buckinghamshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edward the noble
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter Giffard
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter Giffard
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £8 in 1070; £8 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 9 smallholders; 10 slaves
- Plough Teams: 5 lord's ploughs; 5 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Meadow: 10 ploughs
- Woodland: 100 pigs

British Place Names

Whaddon, Buckinghamshire

Whaddon is a village in Buckinghamshire

Whaddon in historic gazetteers

Whaddon in the Domesday Book