|
|
- 1. St Mary, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
-
-
Parish church Aylesbury is an ancient settlement in the centre of Buckinghamshire. An Iron Age hill fort was excavated in the town centre in the 1990s, and the town lies on Akeman Street, the Roman road from Bicester. In the Anglo-Saxon period it was already an important market town, although the county town was then Buckingham, in the NW of the county. Aylesbury superseded Buckingham as the county town in 1529, following a declaration by Henry VIII. According to rumour Henry was trying to please Thomas Boleyn, who held the manor and whose daughter, Anne, the king wished to marry, but Aylesbury was also growing quickly at that time, and was more centrally sited than Buckingham.
|