Saunderton
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Saunderton is a village in the civil parish of Bledlow-cum-Saunderton in Buckinghamshire, England. It gives its name to the Saunderton Valley in the Chiltern Hills. It is south-west of Princes Risborough and north-west of High Wycombe. The parish includes Saunderton Lee, about south of the old village around the parish church, as well as a residential area on the A4010 road around Saunderton railway station on the Chiltern Main Line.
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Place details
- Locality
- Horsenden
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Official website
- www.bledlow-cum-saundertonparishcouncil.org.uk
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- Dialing code
- 01494
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- postal code
- HP14
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- Saunderton
- OS grid reference
- SU8198
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Saunderton is a village in the civil parish of Bledlow-cum-Saunderton in Buckinghamshire, England. It gives its name to the Saunderton Valley in the Chiltern Hills. It is south-west of Princes Risborough and north-west of High Wycombe. The parish includes Saunderton Lee, about south of the old village around the parish church, as well as a residential area on the A4010 road around Saunderton railway station on the Chiltern Main Line.
==History== The toponym "Saunderton" is derived from Old English, but its original meaning is not clear. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Santesdune, leading some scholars to believe that the village name derives from "saint's hill".
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