Bierton
Also known as Bierton, Buckinghamshire
Bierton is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about half a mile northeast of the town of Aylesbury. It is a mainly farming parish. Together with the hamlets of Broughton, Kingsbrook, Broughton Crossing and Burcott it historically formed the civil parish of Bierton with Broughton in the Aylesbury Urban Area, but in 2020 the parish was broken into three, with Bierton becoming its own parish.
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- Locality
- Bierton
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,178
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Bierton is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about half a mile northeast of the town of Aylesbury. It is a mainly farming parish. Together with the hamlets of Broughton, Kingsbrook, Broughton Crossing and Burcott it historically formed the civil parish of Bierton with Broughton in the Aylesbury Urban Area, but in 2020 the parish was broken into three, with Bierton becoming its own parish.
==History== A substantial Belgic settlement once occupied the site of the village with an extensive ditched enclosure. Excavations in 1979 detected four phases of occupation. The ditches were deliberately filled in the first century and little is visible today.
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