Edlesborough
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Edlesborough is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is part of an urban area which crosses into the parish of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire, about three miles WSW of Dunstable.
The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Eadwulf's barrow'. It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Eddinberge.
Included within the parish border of Edlesborough are the hamlets of Dagnall, Northall and part of Ringshall. Hudnall was transferred in 1885 to the parish of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire.[1] "RAF Edlesborough" was a radio station near Dagnall.
Edlesborough School is a community primary school, which takes children from the age of four through to the age of eleven. The school has approximately 250 pupils. The nearest secondary school is The Cottesloe School in Wing.
The village was once a centre for the straw plait industry.
[edit] References
- Gróf, László [1988]. Children of Straw - The story of a Vanished Craft and Industry in Bucks, Herts, Beds and Essex (in English). Southampton, England: Barracuda Books. ISBN 0860232905.
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