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Lamport (occasionally also Langport) was a
Lamport (occasionally also Langport) was a hamlet
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in the parish
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of Stowe
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in north Buckinghamshire
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, England. It was cleared by the Temple family, as a result of enclosure
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s, after 1739, to improve the amenity value of their new park at Stowe. The hamlet's name is Old English
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, meaning ''long town''.
History
Lamport consisted of two ancient manors, one of which was owned by the priory ofOseney
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and passed to Stowe; the other seems to have belonged to Luffield Abbey, whose estate had passed, by 1350, to a family named after the hamlet, and subsequently passed by marriage, in 1416, to the Dayrells (whose name continues in the village name of Lillingstone Dayrell
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). It was annexed to Stowe to provide homes for the staff and servants
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of the new manor house
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there.
In 1637, Peter Temple enclosed land around Lamport for his deer park. This aggrieved the Dayrells, who owned some of the enclosed land. A dispute, occasionally violent, ensued and eventually led to litigation in 1640 and a petition to Parliament. Notwithstanding the Dayrells' resistance, the village's continued to be enclosed and it was abandoned sometime after 1739.
References
{{Aylesbury Vale Hamlets in Buckinghamshire Former populated places in Buckinghamshire