Lenborough is a

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Gawcott Gawcott is a village about south-west of Buckingham in the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Gawcott with Lenborough. History The toponym is derived from the ...

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, England. It is in the

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Gawcott with Lenborough Gawcott is a village about south-west of Buckingham in the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Gawcott with Lenborough. History The toponym is derived from the Old ...

Description

Lenborough consists mainly of barn conversions and farm houses and connects by footpath to the Buckingham Industrial Estate.

Anglo Saxon coins

On 21 December 2014,

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ist Paul Coleman discovered a hoard of 5,251½

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coins in near mint condition. The hoard was discovered during the ''Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club's'' end-of-year rally, and includes coins from the reigns of

Æthelred the Unready Æthelred II ( ang, Æþelræd, ;Different spellings of this king’s name most commonly found in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form . Compare the modern diale ...

(c.968-1016) and

Cnut the Great Cnut (; ang, Cnut cyning; non, Knútr inn ríki ; or , no, Knut den mektige, sv, Knut den Store. died 12 November 1035), also known as Cnut the Great and Canute, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norwa ...

, (c.985-1035).BBC News, 2 Jan 2015, Thousands of ancient coins discovered in Buckinghamshire field.
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(with many photographs)
Video of the excavation of the hoard
Hamlets in Buckinghamshire {{Buckinghamshire-geo-stub