Creslow

Creslow

Coordinates: 51°53′24″N 0°49′25″W / 51.8899°N 0.8236°W / 51.8899; -0.8236

Creslow
Creslow is located in Buckinghamshire
Creslow

 Creslow shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 19 [1]
OS grid reference SP815215
Parish Creslow
District Aylesbury Vale
Shire county Buckinghamshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town AYLESBURY
Postcode district HP22
Dialling code 01296
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Aylesbury
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Creslow (occasionally also known as Christlow) is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is close to Whitchurch, about six and a half miles from Aylesbury.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, Cærsehlaw, meaning 'cress hill'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cresselai.

The parish church of the village was demolished during the English Civil War, by the regicide Cornelius Holland, and was never replaced. [2]

In the Victorian era there was just one house left in the village, the manor house. This was formerly owned by the Knights Templar and, following their suppression, the Knights Hospitaller. Following the dissolution of the Monasteries it was held by the Crown, and the whole of the manor was used as pasture for the cattle of the Royal Household. It was then the property of Lord Clifford but has also now disappeared.

More recently Creslow was the site of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office/MI6 signals intelligence station, which was closed down in 1998. [3]

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