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 Quarrendon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Legend has it that St Osyth was beheaded by the (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark) Danish occupiers of (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) Britain at the holy waters in Quarrendon.
The Quarrendon housing estate on the north west side of Aylesbury was started in the post war years and added to right through to the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s.
It is now one of the largest housing estates in the modern town of Aylesbury with a population in the 2001 (A period count of the population) census of 5,897 people.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qu/quarrendon.htm   (275 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Quarrendon
A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas.
Queen Elizabeth I was entertained at Quarrendon Manor by Sir Henry Lee for two days in 1592.
The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, England Moats were deep and wide water-filled trenches, to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Quarrendon   (819 words)

  
 Articles - Buckinghamshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Not only did they give the county and most of the places within it their names, but the modern geography of the county is largely as it was in the Anglo-Saxon period.
One of the great battles worthy of mention in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was fought between Cerdic of Wessex and the Britons at Chearsley, no fewer than three saints from this period were born in Quarrendon and in the late Anglo-Saxon period a royal palace was established at Brill.
The sheer wealth in the county was worthy of note when the Domesday Survey was taken in 1086.
www.foreverc.com /articles/Buckinghamshire   (1557 words)

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