Preston Bissett

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Preston Bissett
Preston Bissett
Preston Bissett is located in Buckinghamshire
Preston Bissett
Preston Bissett
Location within Buckinghamshire
Population282 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSP6529
Civil parish
  • Preston Bissett
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBuckingham
Postcode districtMK18
PoliceThames Valley
FireBuckinghamshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
Websitehttps://www.prestonbissett.co.uk
List of places
UK
England
Buckinghamshire
51°57′47″N 1°02′38″W / 51.963°N 1.044°W / 51.963; -1.044

Preston Bissett is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. It is about four miles SSW of Buckingham, six miles north east of Bicester in Oxfordshire. The soil is clay and gravel, but the subsoil varies. The parish is watered by a tributary of the River Great Ouse.

The toponym "Preston" is common in England; it is derived from the Old English for "priest's farm". The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Prestone. The affix "Bissett" came later and refers to the lords of the manor, distinguishing it from other places called Preston.

The village has a public house, the White Hart, a playing field, a cricket pitch, garden nurseries and a farm shop.

As of 1927, the History of the County of Buckingham described the village as 'picturesque', mainly composed of thatched cottages grouped around the parish church, which in turn stood in a churchyard on rising ground; although it reported there were "a few modern residences" on the east end of the village.[2]

Lords of the Manor

References

  1. ^ Neighbourhood Statistics Census 2011, Accessed 3 February 2013
  2. ^ 'Parishes :Preston Bissett', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 215-220. Date accessed: 17 January 2013
  3. ^ Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office 1461–7, p. 440. Cited in Parishes : Preston Bissett', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 215-220. Date accessed: 17 January 2013
  4. ^ Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office 1467–77, p. 18, Cited in Parishes : Preston Bissett', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 215-220. Date accessed: 17 January 2013

Further reading

  • Page, W.H., ed. (1927). A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 215–220.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973) . Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 225. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.

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