Grendon Underwood
Grendon Underwood is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, near the border with Oxfordshire. The village sits between Woodham and Edgcott, near the Roman road Akeman Street, and around 10 miles north-west of Aylesbury.Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Village with 637 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England
- Also known as: “Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Leonard and Grendon and Doddershall Woods.
Grendon and Doddershall Woods
Forest
Photo: Andy Gryce, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grendon and Doddershall Woods are a 67.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Grendon Underwood in Buckinghamshire. The local planning authorities are Aylesbury Vale District Council and Buckinghamshire County Council.
Sheephouse Wood
Forest
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sheephouse Wood is a 56.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Charndon in Buckinghamshire. The site has ancient pedunculate oak woodland with diverse ground flora, typical breeding birds and some uncommon invertebrates. Sheephouse Wood is situated 2 miles northeast of Grendon Underwood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Charndon and Calvert.
Charndon
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charndon is a hamlet and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale area of Buckinghamshire, England. Charndon is situated 2½ miles north of Grendon Underwood.
Calvert
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calvert is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, near the village of Steeple Claydon. Originally named after a wealthy local family who had inherited property at Claydon House, Middle Claydon, on condition that they changed their surname to Verney, the village was founded as a hamlet in the Victorian era to house workers for the brick works that were constructed in the area. Calvert is situated 2½ miles north of Grendon Underwood.
Marsh Gibbon
Village
Photo: mym, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marsh Gibbon is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is close to the A41 and the border with Oxfordshire about 4 miles east of Bicester. Marsh Gibbon is situated 3 miles northwest of Grendon Underwood.
Grendon Underwood
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Grendon Underwood, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.87827° or 51° 52′ 42″ northLongitude
-1.00928° or 1° 0′ 33″ westPopulation
637Elevation
246 feet (75 metres)Open location code
9C3WVXHR+87OpenStreetMap ID
node 864862890OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647922Wikidata ID
Q2592734
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Grendon Underwood” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرندن يوندروود”
- Basque: “Grendon Underwood”
- Cebuano: “Grendon Underwood”
- Chinese: “Grendon Underwood”
- Dutch: “Grendon Underwood”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرندن يوندروود”
- French: “Grendon Underwood”
- Irish: “Grendon Underwood”
- Italian: “Grendon Underwood”
- Japanese: “グレンドン・アンダーウッド”
- Ladin: “Grendon Underwood”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Grendon Underwood”
- Persian: “گرندون آندروود”
- Polish: “Grendon Underwood”
- Spanish: “Grendon Underwood”
- Swedish: “Grendon Underwood”
- Turkish: “Grendon Underwood”
- Welsh: “Grendon Underwood”
- “Grendon Underwood”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Grendon Stores and Grendon Underwood Combined School.
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