Monument record 0062100000 - AVERINGDOWN

WEST WYCOMBE ONCE CALLED HAVERINGDON /HANINGDON (B1).
HANECHEDENE ASSESSED IN DOMESDAY. CHURCH ORIGINALLY BUILT FOR THE NUMEROUS TITHINGS (INC PRESENT WEST WYC) OF THE WIDELY SCATTERED MANOR, IN HAVERYNGDON TITHING (PATENT 1393)(B2-4).
VILLAGE TRADITIONALLY IN WHITE CLOSE (B5).
DELETED FROM DMV LIST; NO TRACE (B6).
In Hanechedene Theodwald held 3 hides from the Bishop [of Bayeux]. Now it is in the King's revenue. Land for 7 ploughs; in lordship 1/2 hide; 2 ploughs there. 6 villagers with 3 smallholders and 5 slaves have 5 ploughs. The total value is and was 100s; before 1066, £4. Fridbert, Earl Leofwin's man, held 1/2 hide, which was wrongfully taken from them before 1066 (B10).

The name of a lost village on the spur of the Chilterns, just to the north of West Wycombe, Averingdown, is possibly a modern archaistic revival; the genuine local survival is to be found in the Hearnton, of Hearnton Wood nearby (B11).

SU 827 950 Suspected site of DMV. (B12)

Medieval sherds were found in spoil from graves in West Wycombe churchyard, SU 828 950 by Mr C Saunders in 1965-6; finds now in the County Museum (Acc Nos.140-1 65 188.66) (B13-B14)

Traditionally, the site is in White Close, a field visible from the back of the church, penetrating into the wood behind a house(?Windyhaugh - SU 826 952). Tiles and bricks have been turned up in this field and in a field called Mazedene and the neck of wood called the 'Riding' which separates the two fields. Round the edge of White Close are the remains of the village ditch. More definite evidence can be seen in the undergrowth just above Haveringdown Farm where there are heaps of stone, brick and tiles, the remains of houses - that were in existence three or four centuries ago. (From this description the area appears to be centred at SU 824 959). (B5)

Averingdown, SU 825 964 Deleted from DMV list. No evidence for more than alternative name of church. (B15)

No trace of the DMV and the site is not known to Mr R Parker, a local archaeologist. (B16)