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Encyclopedia Britannica



WENDOVER

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 518 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WENDOVER , a market town in the
Aylesbury
  parliamentary division of Buckinghamshire, England, 33 M. N.W. of Londonby the Metropolitan and the
Great
  Central
joint
  railway. Pop. (1901) 2036. It is picturesquely situated in a shallow defile of the Chiltern Hills, towards their western face. Wendover is a quiet town of no
great
  activity. Its church of St Mary is mainly Decorated, and a few old houses remain.
Wendover (Wendovre, Wandovre, Wendoura) is on the Upper Icknield Way, which was probably an ancient British road, and various traces of a British
settlement
  have been found in the town and neighbourhood. In 1087 the king held the manor of Wendover, and therefore it belonged to the ancient demesne of the crown. There is no trace of any incorporation of the town. Two burgesses were summoned to the parliaments of 1300, 1307 and 1309, but no further returns were made until 1625. In 1832 Wendover lest its right of
separate
  representation. It is note-worthy that John Hampden and Edmund
Burke
  both represented the borough. In 1464 Edward IV. confirmed to his tenants and the residents within the borough the market that they had always held every Thursday. For a short period the day was changed to Tuesday, but the market was given up before 1888. Hugh de Gurnay held a
fair
  in Wendover on the eve, feast and morrow of St John the Baptist, granted him in 1214. Another
fair
  was granted to John de Molyns in 13471348 on the eve, feast and morrow of St Barnabas, but in 1464 Edward IV. granted two fairs to his tenants and residents in the borough, to be held on the vigils, feasts and morrows of St
Matthew
  and of SS. Philip and James. These fairs have been held without interruption till the present day, their
dates
  being October 2 and May 13.


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