Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Hazlemere is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire, created in 1847 from Hughenden Ancient Parish, Penn Ancient Parish and High Wycombe Ancient Parish.
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- Parish registers: 1845
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1851
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Parish History
Hazlemere was a small hamlet in the ancient Desborough Hundred, and the name is recorded as long ago as the 13th century. The crossroads at the centre of the village was originally the meeting point of three different parishes, Penn, Hughenden, and Chepping Wycombe.
At the beginning of the 20th century, farming was still the primary industry in the area and in Edwardian times a large proportion of the area was devoted to cherry orchards. Brickmaking was carried out at the Old Kiln and at Oakengrove. By the 1930s, the area was losing its rural character, and indiscriminate building was increasing, stopped only by the outbreak of the Second World War, when a prisoner of war camp was constructed in the grounds of Hazlemere Park. After the war, the camp was used as temporary accommodation for refugees from the war in Europe. The camp was closed in 1956. Hazlemere – Wikipedia
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Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Amersham; Wycombe
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Wycombe
- Poor Law Union: Amersham
- Hundred: Burnham; Desborough
- Province: Canterbury