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Whaddon, Buckinghamshire

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Whaddon is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district, in Buckinghamshire. [1]

16 relations: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aylesbury Vale, Bletchley Park, Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency), Buckinghamshire, Church of England, Civil parish, Old English, Primary school, Secret Intelligence Service, University of Warwick, Voluntary controlled school, Whaddon Hall, William Lowndes (1652–1724), Winslow Hall, World War II.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Aylesbury Vale

The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a large area of gently rolling agricultural landscape located in the northern half of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II.

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Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)

Buckingham /ˈbʌkɪŋm̩/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by John Bercow, who later became Speaker of the House of Commons.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Secret Intelligence Service

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence (HUMINT) in support of the UK's national security.

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University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a plate glass research university in Coventry, England.

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Voluntary controlled school

A voluntary controlled school (VC school) is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a Christian denomination) has some formal influence in the running of the school.

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Whaddon Hall

Whaddon Hall is a country house in Whaddon, Buckinghamshire.

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William Lowndes (1652–1724)

William Lowndes (1 November 1652 – 20 January 1724) was Secretary to the Treasury of Great Britain under King William III and Queen Anne, and a member of parliament under William, Anne and George I. Lowndes was born in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, the son of Robert Lowndes (1619–1683) and his second wife, Elizabeth FitzWilliam.

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Winslow Hall

Winslow Hall is a country house, now in the center of the small town of Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England, built in 1700; it was sited in the centre of the town, with a public front facing the highway and a garden front that still commanded in 2007, due to William Lowndes' gradual purchase of a block of adjacent houses and gardens from 1693 onwards.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Whaddon Chase, Whaddon Church of England School.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaddon,_Buckinghamshire

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