'Buckinghamshire' Category
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire
Haddenham is one of the largest villages in England, and pre-dates the Doomsday book. The sign shows several of the items for which the village is famous: An Anglo-Saxon (there are several conflicting stories as to how the village was founded - one story says it was founded by A-S travellers from Haddenham in Cambridgeshire), [...]
Medmenham, Buckinghamshire
Medmenham lies on the banks of the Thames, and the sign by the church appears to depict a Viking ship, possibly alluding to the nearby ‘hillforts’- a series of prehistoric defensive earthworks on the Chilterns at Medmenham Camp and Danesfield Camp?
Also nearby is Medmenham Abbey - site of the infamous Hell-Fire Club (also known [...]Whitchurch, Bucks
A wooden Millenium sign, showing the church of St James. Carved by a local craftsman, the sign was erected on New Years Day 2000.
Whitchurch (one of nearly a dozen villages so-named in the UK) is a small, but surprising village with several springs one of which, ‘Fair Alice Spring’, rises out from beneath the site [...]Wing, Bucks
A millenium sign, dated 2000, but the paint was sadly starting to flake on one side at the time of our visit (update: on a later visit the sign was in the process of being repainted).
The Saxon Church is shown, along with what I assume is Ascott House, a local National Trust property formerly [...]Soulbury, Bucks
The sign depicts the view from near to the village inn, ‘The Boot’, looking toward the church which sits on a rise with commanding views to the south.
The stone in the middle of the road on Chapel Hill is reputed to roll down the hill every night when the clock strikes twelve.
Soulbury Village OS [...]Olney, Bucks
Located in the main marketplace, the sign depicts the annual Olney Pancake Race. The sign was commissioned by Olney & District Society and designed by Tom Hancock.
According to legend, the race was first run in 1445, and is now run from the Market Place to a point midway down Church Lane - a distance of [...]