Barton Hartshorn

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Barton Hartshorn
population= 79 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792014&c=Barton+Hartshorn&d=16&e=15&g=424419&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1215972458515&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 | Neighbourhood Statistics Census 2001] ]
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latitude= 51.973431
longitude= -1.069430
civil_parish= Barton Hartshorn
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county= Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
post_town= BUCKINGHAM
postcode_district= MK18
postcode_area= MK
os_grid_reference= SP645315

Barton Hartshorn is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in west Buckinghamshire, England close to the border with Oxfordshire. It is situated about four miles south west of Buckingham.

The village name comes in two parts. The first part, "Barton", is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "Barley Farm", and is a common place name (and family name) in England. The second part, "Hartshorn", comes from a separate hamlet in the same parish and is thought to refer to the shape of the land locally: it lies in the shape of a deer's horn.

Before the Norman Conquest the village was owned by Thegn Wilaf, though the Normans annexed it, and at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 it was one of the extensive properties belonging to Odo of Bayeux.

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