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Turweston
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Turweston is a village and civil parish in north-west Buckinghamshire, England. The village is beside the River Great Ouse, which bounds the parish to the north, west and south. Turweston is the most northwesterly parish in Buckinghamshire: the Ouse here forms the county boundary with Northamptonshire to the north and west and Oxfordshire to the south. Across the river, the Northamptonshire market town of Brackley is just west of Turweston, with the town centre about west of the village. The parish has an area of and had a population of 211 at the 2011 Census.
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- Locality
- Turweston
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Turweston
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary's, Turweston - geograph.org.uk - 143152.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary's parish church
- UK place.population
- 211
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP6037
- UK place.civil_parish
- Turweston
- UK place.unitary_england
- Buckinghamshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Buckinghamshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- BRACKLEY
- UK place.postcode_area
- NN
- UK place.postcode_district
- NN13
- UK place.dial_code
- 01280
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Buckingham and Bletchley
- UK legislation.short_title
- Turweston Inclosure Act 1813
- UK legislation.type
- Act
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- Toponym
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- Methodist
- Economic and social history
- Public house
- Railways
- Airfield
- References
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- External links
Turweston is a village and civil parish in north-west Buckinghamshire, England. The village is beside the River Great Ouse, which bounds the parish to the north, west and south. Turweston is the most northwesterly parish in Buckinghamshire: the Ouse here forms the county boundary with Northamptonshire to the north and west and Oxfordshire to the south. Across the river, the Northamptonshire market town of Brackley is just west of Turweston, with the town centre about west of the village. The parish has an area of and had a population of 211 at the 2011 Census.
==Toponym== Turweston's toponym is derived from the Old English for "Þorfrøthr's village". The name reached its present form through Turvestone in the Domesday Book of 1086; Thurneston and Turnestone in the 14th century; Turston, Tereweston, Turveston and Tower Weston in the 17th century and Turson in the 18th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turweston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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