| Radnage | |
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 Entrance to Radnage, Sprigs Holly Lane | |
 St. Mary's parish Church | |
  Radnage Location withinBuckinghamshire | |
| Population | 658 [1] 673 (2011 census)[2] |
| OS grid reference | SU7897 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | High Wycombe |
| Postcode district | HP14 |
| Dialling code | 01494 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Radnage |
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Radnage is a village andcivil parish in theBuckinghamshire district ofBuckinghamshire, England. It is in theChiltern Hills about two miles north east ofStokenchurch and six miles WNW ofHigh Wycombe.
The parish is set in folds of theChiltern Hills to the south ofBledlow Ridge next to the border with Oxfordshire. Although not a large parish, the residential areas known as The City,Bennett End and Town End, are separate hamlets.
Radnage (also spelled Radeneach, Rodenache etc. in old documents) meant ‘red oak’ inOld English.
Settlement in the area dates back to Roman times as demonstrated by the excavation of aRomano-British glass ribbed bowl from the village, now in theBritish Museum.[3] Radnage is not mentioned in Domesday Book and it appears from a 13th-century document to have beenroyal demesne attached to the manor ofBrill. Later, it was divided into two parts. The smaller part was granted byKing Henry I to the newly establishedFontevrault Abbey in France and attached to property at Leighton in Bedfordshire, which was also given to Fontevrault.
The larger part, known as Radnage Manor, was for a time retained by the crown and then in 1215 was granted byKing John to theKnights Templar. When this order was suppressed in the early 14th century, their lands passed to theKnights Hospitaller. On theDissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII the manor was again acquired by the crown.King Charles I mortgaged it with other crown lands to the City of London in order to raise money. Later,King Charles II was said to have given it to one of his mistresses. But by the 19th century both parts of the manor again belonged to the crown and so remained until the abolition of manorial rights in 1925.[4]
Dedicated on 1 May 1920,Radnage War Memorial sits in a walled garden at Mudds Bank.[5]
Radnage has twopublic houses: The Crown[6][7] and the Mash Inn[8] (previously known as the Three Horseshoes[8]).
There is also avillage hall, which is used as the meeting place for theparish council[9] andW.I.[10] In addition to this, the hall also has a playing field and separate children's playground.[11]
The village also has twocampsites: Bella Vista[12] and Home Farm.[13]
Radnage is situated in the heart of theChiltern Hills and is served by multiplefootpaths andbridleways. As such, it's popular with cyclists, walkers, runners and horse riders. The village holds an annual 5k and 10k trail run race to raise money for the local school.[14]
St Mary the Virgin is the local parish church, situated towards the northeastern edge of the parish. The church is part of the West Wycombebenefice,[20] the building is Grade 1 listed.[21]
The church was built in the late12th century, early13th century[21] in much the same form as it appears today, though larger windows were inserted in the14th century and thenave appears to have been lengthened and heightened in the 15th century, when the present roof was built. There is a central tower, which is unusual in being narrower than either the chancel or the nave.
There are three originallancet windows of the early 13th century in the east wall of the chancel. The other windows in the church are 14th century. The south doorway is original of the early 13th century. A similar north doorway has been blocked up. The south porch and outer door are original of the 13th century, but with a 15th-century roof and 15th-century windows in the side walls.
The fine 15th-century nave roof has embattledtie-beams supported by arched brackets with tracery in thespandrels and also in the triangular spaces above the beams. The lower-pitched chancel roof is probably 16th century.
Inside the church there is an archway through the tower with 13th-century arches in pointed style at either end. The chancel has a 13th-centurypiscina (damaged) in the south wall. The nave has traces of early wall painting and also post-Reformation texts (16th-to-18th-century). The font is probably 17th-century.[22]
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