Whaddon

Whaddon is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated just outside of Bletchley, a constituent town of Milton Keynes. The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'hill where wheat is grown'.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Snelshall Priory and St Giles’s Church, Tattenhoe.

Snelshall Priory

Archaeological site

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Snelshall Priory was a Benedictine priory in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in the United Kingdom, built around 1200. The priory was founded after Sybil d'Aungerville granted land at Tattenhoe to Lavendon Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery of 'White canons' who most likely started a cell at Snelshall.

St Giles’s Church, Tattenhoe

Church

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St. Giles's Church is a small 16th century Church of England church in Tattenhoe, a district in south-west Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is of modest size but is a Grade II* listed building.

HM Prison Woodhill

Prison

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HM Prison Woodhill is a category B men's high security prison located in Milton Keynes, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Milton Keynes and Loughton.

Milton Keynes

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Milton Keynes is a city of 245,000 people in the South East of England. Milton Keynes is well known in the UK as a planned city built in the 1960s with emphatically modernist architecture.

Loughton

Suburb

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Loughton is a historic village and modern neighbourhood in the civil parish of Loughton and Great Holm in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It lies approximately 1 mile west of Central Milton Keynes, bounded by the A5 to the east, H5 Portway to the north, V4 Watling Street to the west and H6 Childs Way to the south. Loughton is situated 3 miles northeast of Whaddon.

Little Horwood

Village

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Little Horwood is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, within the Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority area. The village is about four miles east-south-east of Buckingham and two miles north-east of Winslow. Little Horwood is situated 2 miles southwest of Whaddon.

Whaddon

Type: Locality
Location: Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.9979° or 51° 59′ 52″ north

Longitude

-0.8287° or 0° 49′ 43″ west

Elevation

466 feet (142 metres)

Open location code

9C3XX5XC+4G

GeoNames ID

7299791

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