Whaddon, Buckinghamshire
|
|
Whaddon is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, just south of the new town of Milton Keynes.
The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'hill where wheat is grown'. The village is referred to several times in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle generally in the form of Hwętędun.
The village is at the centre of the ancient Whaddon Chase, the site for many centuries of royal and ritual hunting lands. However the well supported hunt that took place in Winslow on Boxing Day 2004 was the last one ever to take place in the Whaddon Chase following new anti-blood sports legislation passed by the government of the United Kingdom became law in 2005 (see Fox Hunting).
Whaddon Hall, (the village manor) was once home to the Selby-Lowndes family, who built the larger and grander Winslow Hall. It is still a private house.