Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ASHENDON

Definitions of ASHENDON

1. A village and civil parish in, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP7014).

Examples of Using ASHENDON in a Sentence

• OVING, in the hundred of Ashendon and deanery of Wendover, lies about six miles north-west of Aylesbury, and about a mile to the west of the road from that town to Buckingham.

• All Saints's Church is a member of the Bernwode Benefice of the Church of England, which covers Wotton Underwood, along with the village parishes of Ashendon, Boarstall, Brill, Chilton, Dorton, and Ludgershall.
• The second phase was completed in 1906: In order to create a more direct route, the GWR collaborated with the Great Central Railway (GCR) to create a new railway known as the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway between Northolt (in north west London) and Ashendon Junction (west of Aylesbury) via.
• It also includes suburbs of a more semi-rural nature in the Darling Scarp, including the Armadale suburbs of Ashendon, Bedfordale, Karragullen, Lesley, Mount Richon, Roleystone, and Wungong, part of the Gosnells suburb of Martin, and the Kalamunda suburbs of Canning Mills, Carmel, and Pickering Brook.
• Nearby are images of 18100 in retirement having been "stored" on a disused section of the GCR link between Ashendon (GWR) and Grendon junction (GCR).
• The line was extended in a north-westerly direction to Ashendon Junction, at which point the joint line ended, and a GCR route ran northwards to Grendon Underwood Junction, just south of ; both sections opened for goods on 20 November 1905 and for passengers on 2 April 1906.
• A junction was to be made at Ashendon, between Princes Risborough and Grendon Underwood, and this GWR section of line would join the Oxford to Banbury line at a new junction at Aynho, not far south of Banbury.
• Akeman Street was a railway station at Woodham, Buckinghamshire, where the railway linking Ashendon Junction and Grendon Underwood Junction crossed the Akeman Street Roman road (now the A41 road).
• The new line linked Ashendon Junction on the Chiltern Main Line to the Great Central Railway at Grendon Underwood, a short distance northwest of Quainton Road.

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