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Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county of south central England. Area: 1883 sq km (727 sq miles). 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.

• Addington, Adstock, Akeley, Amersham, Ascott, Ashendon, Asheridge, Ashley Green, Askett, Aston Abbotts, Aston Clinton, Aston Sandford, Astwood, Aylesbury
• Ballinger, Barton Hartshorn, Beachampton, Beaconsfield, Bedgrove, Bellingdon, Biddlesden, Bierton, Bishopstone, Bledlow, Bledlow Ridge, Bletchley, Boarstall, Booker, Botley, Botolph Claydon, Bourne End, Bourton, Boveney, Bow Brickhill, Boycott, Bradenham, Bradwell, Brill, Britwell, Broughton near Aylesbury, Broughton near Milton Keynes, Broughton Crossing, Buckingham, Buckland, Burcott near Bierton, Burcott near Wing, Burnham, Butlers Cross
• Cadmore, Caldecote, Caldicot, California, Calvert, Calverton, Castlethorpe, Chackmore, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter, Chalkshire, Chalvey, Charndon, Chartridge, Chearsley, Cheddington, Chenies, Chesham, Chesham Bois, Chetwode, Chicheley, Chilton, Chivery, Cholesbury, Cippenham, Clifton Reynes, Cold Brayfield, Coldmoorham, Coleshill, Colnbrook, Cooks Wharf, Cores End, Crafton, Creslow, Cublington, Cuddington
• Dadford, Dagnall, Datchet, Denham, Dinton, Ditton, Dorney, Dorton, Downley, Drayton Beauchamp, Drayton Parslow, Dunsmore, Dunton
• Easington, East Claydon, Eaton Bray, Edgcott, Edlesborough, Egypt, Ellesborough, Emberton, Eton, Eythrope
• Farnham Common, Farnham Royal, Fawley, Fenny Stratford, Filgrave, Fingest, Flackwell Heath, Fleet Marston, Ford, Foscot, Frieth, Frithsden, Fulmer
• Gawcott, Gayhurst, George Green, Gerrards Cross, Gibraltar, Granborough, Great Brickhill, Great Hampden, Great Horwood, Great Kimble, Great Kingshill, Great Linford, Great Missenden, Great Woolstone, Green Hailey, Grendon Underwood, Grove
• Haddenham, Halton, Halton Camp, Hambleden, Handy Cross, Hanslope, Hardmead, Hardwick, Hartwell, Haversham, Hawridge, Hazlemere, Hedgerley & Dean, Hedsor, High Wycombe, Hillesden, Hitcham, Hoggeston, Hogshaw, Holmer Green, Horsenden, Horton near Eton, Horton near Ivinghoe, Hughenden, Hughenden Valley, Hulcott, Hundridge, Hyde Heath
• Ibstone, Ickford, Ilmer, Iver, Iver Heath, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston
• Kimble Wick, Kingsey, Kingswood
• Lacey Green, Lamport, Lane End, Langley Marish, Lathbury, Latimer, Lavendon, Leckhampstead, Ledburn, Lee, Lee Clump, Lenborough, Lillingstone Dayrell, Lillingstone Lovell, Linslade, Little Brickhill, Little Chalfont, Little Hampden, Little Horwood, Little Kimble, Little Kingshill, Little Linford, Little London, Little Marlow, Little Missenden, Little Woolstone, Littleworth, Long Crendon, Long Street, Longwick, Loosley Row, Loudwater, Loughton, Lower Bacombe, Lower Cadsden, Lower Pollicott, Lower Weald, Ludgershall, Luffield Abbey
• Maids Moreton, Marlow, Marsh, Marsh Gibbon, Marsworth, Meadle, Medmenham, Mentmore, Middle Claydon, Middle Green, Middle Weald, Milton Keynes, Monks Risborough, Moulsoe, Mursley
• Naphill, Nash, Nash Lee, Nether Winchendon, Nettleden, New Zealand, Newport Pagnell, Newton Blossomville, Newton Longville, North Crawley, North Lee, North Marston, Northall
• Oakley, Olney, Oving, Owlswick
• Padbury, Pednor, Penn, Penn Street, Petsoe Manor, Pitchcott, Pitstone, Poundon, Preston Bissett, Prestwood, Princes Risborough
• Quainton, Quarrendon
• Radclive, Radnage, Ravenstone, Ringshall, Rowsham
• St Leonards, Saunderton, Seer Green, Shabbington, Shalstone, Shenley Brook End, Shenley Church End, Sherington, Shipton Lee, Shredding Green, Simpson, Singleborough, Slapton, Slough, Soulbury, Southcote, Speen, Stantonbury, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stoke Goldington, Stoke Hammond, Stoke Mandeville, Stoke Poges, Stokenchurch, Stone, Stony Stratford, Stowe, Swanbourne
• Taplow, Tattenhoe, Terrick, Thornborough, Thorney, Thornton, Tingewick, Tongwell, Towersey, Turville, Turweston, Twyford, Tylers Green, Tyringham
• Upper Bacombe, Upper Cadsden, Upper Pollicott, Upper Weald, Upper Winchendon, Upton, Upton cum Chalvey
• Verney Junction
• Waddesdon, Walters Ash, Walton near Aylesbury, Walton near Woburn Sands, Warrington, Water Eaton, Water Stratford, Watermead, Waterside, Wavendon, Weedon, Wendover, West Wycombe, Westbury, Westcott, Westlington, Weston Turville, Weston Underwood, Wexham, Whaddon, Wheeler End, Whitchurch, Whiteleaf, Widmer End, Willen, Winchmore Hill, Wing, Wingrave, Winslow, Woburn Sands, Wolverton, Wooburn, Woodham, Worminghall, Wotton Underwood, Woughton on the Green, Wraysbury

Places of interest

• Bletchley Park
• Boarstall Tower
• Buckinghamshire Railway Centre in Quainton
• Chequers Court
• Cliveden
• Halton Hall
• Hartwell House
• Hughenden Manor
• Mentmore Towers
• Stowe Park
• Waddesdon Manor
• West Wycombe Caves
• Whiteleaf Cross