The village name 'Drayton' is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'farm where sledges are used'.
The suffix 'Parslow' derives from 'Passelaw', the ancient manorial family of the parish, commonly added to differentiate from another village in the county Drayton Beauchamp.
"DraytonParslow (Swanbourne, 3 m.), which takes its second name from the family of Passelaw, who were lords of the manor for several generations from the time of Henry I, is a rural village of red-brick cottages, hardly any old buildings being left, which has grown up round the church.
War memorials in DraytonParslow have been transcribed by Peter Quick and published by the Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society.
DraytonParslow was described in 1806 in "Magna Britannia" as follows:
It is a place name frequently found in England, referring to places that were on the hillsides, requiring the use of a sledge (rather than a cart) to pull heavy loads.
There are many places in England, with 'Drayton' in their name, including:
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DraytonParslow, Stewkley and Wing water main renewal
Name: DraytonParslow, Stewkley and Wing water main renewal
In October1999 an archaeological desk-based assessment was undertaken of a 7.25km section of the proposed route of a water pipeline, part of Anglian Water Services' Winslow Zone Trunk Main Renewal Scheme, in the area of the villages of DraytonParslow, Stewkley and Wing, Buckinghamshire.
