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- While many people might know it as Roald Dahl's home, they will probably also have seen it in the backdrop of Midsommer Murders or been to a wedding at the beautiful Missenden Abbey. The village was also historically important as it was on the route between the Midlands and London meaning it had numerous coaching inns filled with trade.
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History. Great Missenden lay on a major route between the Midlands and London. Several coaching inns, particularly the Red Lion (now an estate agency) and The George (with new owners), provided rest and refreshment for travellers and their horses.
Sep 24, 2024 · The ABBEY OF GREAT MISSENDEN for Arroasian Canons was founded in 1133 by William de Missenden, lord of that manor, who endowed it with lands in the parish, including Potter Row (Potterewe), Ballinger (Balenger), Kingshill (Kyngeshull), Peterley, Prestwood, and Moretensend.
Great Missenden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire. Other places in the parish include: Brands Fee and Potters Row. Alternative names: Parish church: Parish registers begin: Parish registers: 1678. Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575. Nonconformists include: Baptist, Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic. Table of contents.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Missenden like this: MISSENDEN (GREAT), a village and a parish in Amersham district, Bucks.
Historical Description. Missenden, Great, a large village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands in a charming valley, near the source of the rivulet Mise or Miss, 4½ miles NW of Amersham, and 5½ NNE of Wycombe station on the Wycombe and Oxford. section of the G.W.R., and 4 W from Chesham station on the Metropolitan railway; is a ...
- Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
GREAT-MISSENDEN, in the hundred of Aylesbury and deanery of Wendover, lies about half-way between Wendover and Amersham, on the road to London. At this place was an abbey of black canons, the history of the foundation of which is involved in some uncertainty.
HISTORY: Missenden Abbey was the first Abbey to be founded in Bucks and the first or second Arrouaisian house in England; it was dissolved in 1583.
