The parish church is built in on what is thought to be a motte. A castle at this site was first mentioned in documentary sources in 1154-64 and was possibly demolished 1208-1215, although a Constable of Buckingham is documented in 1280. Levelled in 1777 for the churchyard which now occupies it. In 1877 excavations at […]
Bolebec Castle
Ring and bailey or motte and bailey seen as earthworks. The castle mound is scarped out of the natural slope of the spur to enclose a sub-oval area about 80 metres north to south by about 60 metres east to west. Only in the north arc is an inner counter-scarp bank 0.8 metres in height. […]
Boarstall Tower
14th-century moated gatehouse, built by John de Haudlo and once part of a fortified manor house, set in gardens. The property, owned by the National Trust is tenanted. Boarstall was so called from the legend of a wild boar that was killed (temp. Edward the Confessor) by one Nigel, a forester, in the ancient forest […]
City Discovery Centre – Bradwell Abbey
City Discovery Centre has been based at the ancient site of Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes since 1992. Bradwell Abbey is the site and remains of a medieval Benedictine Priory and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument Bradwell Abbey is also a non-statutory Biological Notification Site and a proposed Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Site. The […]
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Chiltern Open Air Museum preserves and interprets the built heritage of the Chilterns that would otherwise be lost. The Museum was founded in 1976, with the aim of rescuing threatened buildings and re-erecting them on our forty-five acre site of natural park, meadow and woodland, thereby preserving a variety of structures of historical or vernacular […]