Akeley Parish

Church: St James the Apostle

Hundred: Buckingham

Poor Law District: Buckingham

Size (acres): 1325

Easting & Northing: 470237

Grid Ref SP700370 Click to see map

Articles

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Akeley derives its name from 'Ake', the Anglo-Saxon word for , and 'Ley', a field. In the Domesday Book it is spelled Achelei. Akeley had a church in 1164 and its living came into the possesion Longueville Abbey.

Akeley Parish (Pop. 291.) One Daily School, in which 3 boys and 3 girls are instructed at the expense of their parents. One Sunday School, consisting of 30 males and 26 females (commenced 1829), supported by Wesleyan Methodists. Abstract of Education Returns 1833

Akeley is a parish on the road from Buckingham to Towcaster, 3 miles Buckingham station on the Verney Junction and Banbury branch of the London, Midland and Scottish railway. In the Buckingham hundred has an area of 1,325 acres and a population of 267 in 1921.

BUCKINGHAM HUNDRED From Sheahan 1861: The hundred of Buckingham, which is situated on the north-western verge of the county, is bounded on the N. and N.E. by Nothamptionshire; on the E. by the hundreds of Newport and Cottesloe; on the S and S.E. by Ashendon hundred; and on the W. by the county of

At the turn of the century, this little village in north Bucks was almost entirely self-supporting. There were two general stores, a butcher, a baker, who was also landlord of the Greyhound, a builder and undertaker, a coal and wood merchant, two cobblers, a tailor and a wheelwright who carried on h

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Places

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	History of early Akeley
	Search The National Archives for Akeley
	Historical Statistics/Maps
	Church Stained Glass

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Photographs

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Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

There was no census in 1941.

Records

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Register Library

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Part:

Details: Bap: 1682-1838 Mar: 1682-1837 Bur: 1682-1838 C Scott

Size: A4      Weight (grams): 200      Library Ref: PR147

Part:

Details: Mar: 1600/01-1661 (BTs), 1687/88-1812 E McLaughlin and N G Chorlton

Size: A4      Weight (grams): 76      Library Ref: PR269

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Surnames

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