Editing Middle Claydon

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{{Infobox UK place
|static_image_name    = Claydon House with All Saints, Middle Claydon (3604902068).jpg
|static_image_caption = Claydon House with All Saints, Middle Claydon, 2009
|country= England
|coordinates = {{coord|51.9257|-0.9539|display=inline,title}}
|population= 146
|population_ref= ([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]])<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126528&c=Middle+Claydon&d=16&e=62&g=6404033&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1359915365301&enc=1 |title=Area: Middle Claydon (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]] |access-date=3 February 2013}}</ref>
|official_name= Middle Claydon
|civil_parish= Middle Claydon
|unitary_england     = [[Buckinghamshire Council|Buckinghamshire]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[Buckinghamshire]]
|region= South East England
|constituency_westminster= [[Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)|Buckingham]]
|post_town= [[Buckingham]]
|postcode_district= MK18
|postcode_area= MK 
|dial_code= 01296
|os_grid_reference= SP725255 
|website= [http://theclaydons.org/ The Claydons]
}}

'''Middle Claydon''' is a village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in [[Buckinghamshire]], England. The village is about {{convert|5|mi|0}} south of [[Buckingham]] and about {{convert|3.5|mi}} west of [[Winslow, Buckinghamshire|Winslow]]. Administratively, the parish is within the remit of [[Buckinghamshire Council]], the [[unitary authority]] for most of the county.

The [[Toponymy|toponym]] "Claydon" is derived from the [[Old English]] for "clay hill".<ref>{{cite web |title=Key to English place names: Middle Claydon |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Buckinghamshire/Middle%20Claydon |publisher=Institute for Name-Studies, [[University of Nottingham]] |access-date=3 August 2023}}</ref> The affix "Middle" differentiates the village from nearby [[Steeple Claydon]], and [[East Claydon]], and from the [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] of [[Botolph Claydon]]. The [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 records the Claydon area as ''Claindone''.

The [[Church of England parish church]] of [[All Saints' Day|All Saints]] is in the grounds of [[Claydon House]], a [[National Trust]] property. The house was the home of Sir [[Edmund Verney (Cavalier)|Edmund Verney]], an [[English Civil War]] [[Cavalier|Royalist]],<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Page |editor-first=W.H. |editor-link=William Henry Page |date=1927 |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 4 |pages=32–35 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62527 }}  Parishes : Middle Claydon{{snd}}Manor</ref>  and of [[Florence Nightingale]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Knox |first=Tim |year=1999 |title=Claydon House |publisher=The National Trust|isbn=978-1-84359-025-5 }} page 28</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |editor-last=Page |editor-first=W.H. |editor-link=William Henry Page |date=1927 |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 4 |pages=32–35 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62527 }}
*{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1960 |title=Buckinghamshire |series=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides#Buildings of England|The Buildings of England]] |location=Harmondsworth |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=0-14-071019-1 |pages=206–209 }}

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