Buckinghamshire

Table of contents
1 Introduction
2 Towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire
3 Places of interest
4 Famous People from Bucks

Introduction

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is both a traditional county and administrative county in south central England. Area: 727 sq miles (1883 sq km). County town: Aylesbury. Population: 590,000. It borders onto Oxfordshire; Northamptonshire; the unitary district of Milton Keynes; Bedfordshire; the unitary district of Luton; the county of Hertfordshire; and the Berkshire unitary districts of Windsor and Maidenhead and of Slough.

It is an agricultural county, covering part of the Chiltern Hills to the South and the Vale of Aylesbury to the north. It has fertile agricultural lands, with many landed estates, especially those of the de Rothschild family in the 19th century (see Rothschild properties in Buckinghamshire). Industry: Agricultural, furniture, pharmaceuticals, service and distribution industries. There are some residential commuter areas for London in the south.

The name Buckinghamshire is Anglo Saxon and means The district of the land belonging to the kinsmen of Bucca. Bucca, in this sense, would have been an Anglo Saxon individual of some prominence.

Towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire

Some of these are now administrated by neighbouring counties and unitary authorities, but form part of the traditional county of Buckinghamshire. Places that are no longer part of the administrative county are listed in Italics.

Places of interest

Famous People from Bucks

The following people are either from Buckinghamshire, have lived in Buckinghamshire, or continue to live in Buckinghamshire.