Botley is a
hamlet
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in the
civil parish
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of
Chesham
Chesham (, , or ) is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, south-east of the county town of Aylesbury, north-west of central London, and part of the London commuter belt. It is in the Chess Valley, surrounded by farmla ...
, in
Buckinghamshire, England.
The hamlet name is
Anglo Saxon in origin, and means ''Botta's Clearing''.
Botley includes the Hen and Chickens
public house
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and Goose Acre pond. Most of the houses in Botley are on Botley Road. Botley is divided between the civil parishes of Chesham and
Latimer, and merges into the village of
Ley Hill.
References
Chesham
Hamlets in Buckinghamshire
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