Maids Moreton

Maids Moreton is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of northern Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about  north of Buckingham. The village is contiguous with the Buckingham urban area and is thus often considered as a suburb.

Description and history
The parish of Maids Moreton covers about  of which  are arable,  permanent grass and  woods and plantations. The soil is mostly clay and gravel and the subsoil gravel.

The village lies along the Buckingham to Towcester road (A413). It contains many 17th-century houses and cottages with timber frames with brick or plaster filling and thatched roofs.

The 15th-century parish church of Saint Edmund is said to have been built by two maiden ladies of the Pever family hence the name "Maids' Moreton". The Maids' memorials are a wall painting over the north door and brasses on a slab just within the doorway.

The old post office, situated at the junction of Main Street with the A413, closed in the mid-1990s and is now a private house. The chapel (on the A413) was demolished in the early 1980s and the allotments next to the chapel were all used for new housing.

In 1847, George Lipscomb listed the following Rectors for Maids Moreton:

1241 Robert
12— Richard de Osgotsby
1291 Roger Inge
1294 Peter Passelewe
1303 Richard Walney
1327 Adam Skiret de Bucks
1337 Gilbert de Chishul
1338 John de Pacham
1340 John de Mulnho
1349 John de Edynton
1352 William de Ashlee
1370 William de Kele
1376 Richard Freeman
1412 John Doune
1420 Richard Ward
14— William Sandbacke
1465 John Gyton
1470 William Wilkynson
1483 William Litchfield
1501 John Dely
1503 Thomas Fox
1531 William Molineaux, A.M.
1549 Richard Davis
1554 Christopher Malton
1557 Richard Bradborne, B.D.
1558 Peter Head
1559 Richard Davis, restored
1563 John Hodgison
1566 John Smith
1602 William Gee, or Lee
1603 George Bate, A.M.
1663 Matthew Bate
1665 Thomas Disney, A.M.
1665 Francis Atterbury, A.M.
1671 Matthew Bate, A.M.
1685 William Lea, A.M.
1699 Matthew Bate, LL.B.
1743 John Sandwell, Clerk
1752 William Hutton, LL.B.
1780 Richard Withnell, A.M.
1790 James Long Hutton, A.M.

School
Maids Moreton Church of England School is a mixed Church of England voluntary controlled primary school in Maids Moreton. The school takes children between the ages of four and seven and has about 50 pupils.

References

External links

 North Buckingham Parish

Category:Villages in Buckinghamshire
Category:Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire