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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 727 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCKINGHAM  , a

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town and municipal borough and the county town of Buckinghamshire, England, in the Bucking-
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ham
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parliamentary division, 61 m . N.W. of
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London by a branch of the London & North-Western railway . Pop . (1901) 3152 . It lies in an open valley on the upper
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part of the
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river
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Ouse, which encircles the main portion of the town on three sides . The church of St Peter and St Paul, which was extensively, restored by
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Sir Gilbert Scott, a native of this neighbourhood, is of the 18th century, and stands on the site of the old castle; the town hall
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dates from the close of the previous century; and the grammar school was founded by
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Edward VI., in part occupying buildings of earlier date, which retain Perpendicular and Decorated windows, and a Norman door . A chantry, founded in 1268 by Matthew Stratton, archdeacon of Buckingham, previously occupied the site; the Norman
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work may be a remnant of the
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chapel of a gild of the
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Holy Trinity . The
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manor house is of the early part of the 17th century, and other old houses remain . The adjacent mansion of Stowe, approached from the town by a magnificent avenue of elms, and surrounded by gardens very beautifully laid out, was the seat of the dukes of Buckingham until the extinction of the title in 1889 . Bucking-ham is served by a branch of the
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Grand Junction Canal, and has agricultural trade, manufactures of condensed milk and artificial manure, maltings and
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flour-mills; while an old industry survives to a modified extent in the manufacture of pillow-lace . The borough is under a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors .
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Area, 5oo6 acres .

Buckingham (Bochingeham, Bukyngham) was an important stronghold in pre-

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Conquest times, and in 918 Edward the Elder encamped there with his army for four weeks, and threw up two forts on either side of the
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water . At the time of the Domesday survey there were twenty-six burgesses in Buckingham, which, together with the
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hamlet of Bourton, was assessed at one hide . Although it appears as a borough thus early, the town received no charter until 1554, when Queen Mary created it a
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free borough corporate with a
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bailiff, twelve
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principal burgesses and a steward, and defined the boundaries as extending in width from Dudley
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bridge to Thornborowe bridge and in length from Chackmore bridge to Padbury Mill bridge . A charter from Charles II. in 1684 was very shortly abandoned in favour of the
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original grant, which held force until the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 . In 1529 and from 1545 onwards Buckingham returned two members to parliament, until deprived by the Representation of the
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People Act of 1867 of one member, and by the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 of the other . Early mentions occur of markets arid fairs, and from 1522, when Henry VIII, granted to Sir Henry Marney the borough of Bucking-ham with a Saturday market and two
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annual fairs, grants of fairs by various sovereigns were numerous . Buckingham was formerly an important agricultural centre, and Edward III. fixed here one of the staples for wool, but after the removal of these to
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Calais the trade suffered such decay that in an act of 32 Henry VIII . Buckingham is mentioned among
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thirty-six impoverished towns .

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