Monument record 0706600000 - WADDESDON VILLAGE

Miles [Crispin} holds Waddesdon himself. It answers for 27 hides. Land for 28 ploughs; in lordship 10 hides; 8 ploughs there. 50 villagers with 10 smallholders have 20 ploughs. 17 slaves; 1 mill at 12s; meadow for 28 ploughs; woodland, 150 pigs. Total value £30; when acquired £16; before 1066 £30. Brictric, Queen Edith's man, held this manor (B1).
NGR to centre of village.
Conservation Area designated on 18th July 1990 and reviewed July 2014. See appraisal (B2).
Illustrated history between 1874-1925 (B3).
Waddesdon is first recorded in Domesday Book, with frequent references in legal documents from the 12th century onwards (B4).
The large village of Waddesdon, now one of the model villages of the county, is situated in the northwest of the parish, on the Akeman Street, which here forms the main road from Aylesbury to Bicester. The church, approached through a lych-gate and by an avenue, stands in a large churchyard on rising ground to the north-west of the village with the modern rectory to the north-east of it. The chief mansion-house in Waddesdon formerly stood to the south of the church, on Philosophy Farm, the original endowment of the Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University. The village hall, on the south side of the High Street, was built in 1897 by the late Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, who in 1883 had provided a club and reading-room for working-men. The Goodwin almshouses, which were erected in the 17th century by Arthur Goodwin, were rebuilt in 1894 by Baron Rothschild. He also rebuilt the Five Arrows Hotel at the western end of the village. One of the two elementary schools in the village belongs to the Church of England, and was built by Miss Alice de Rothschild in 1910, when the old school premises were adapted into the Waddesdon Institute for the use of tradesmen and farmers in the district. The Primitive Methodists, Wesleyans and Baptists have each their chapel (B5).
'Waddesdon' is marked on OS maps from about 1813 onwards (B6).