Monument record 0218000000 - PHILOSOPHY FARM

Summary

Site of medieval and/or post-medieval farmstead given as endowment to Oxford professorship now destroyed

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  • FARMSTEAD (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD)

Description

THE ORIGINAL ENDOWMENT OF THE SEDLEIAN PROFESSORSHIP OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY (B3).
PHILOSOPHY FARM & ITS OUTBUILDINGS HAVE BEEN PULLED DOWN (B4).
STONE FLOOR PRESUMABLY THAT OF FARMHOUSE FOUND IN SITU AT NGR (B5).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p432.
  • <2>SBC903 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.
  • <3>SBC20463 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1927. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume IV. Volume 4. pp108-110.
  • <4>SBC19627 Bibliographic reference: C. Oscar Moreton. 1929. Waddeson And Over Winchendon. pp33,50-52.
  • <5>SBC14946 Bibliographic reference: STRONG MRS J,JAN 1974,FIELD VISIT.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 7408 1676 (50m by 40m)
Civil Parish WADDESDON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 26 2026 5:55PM

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