Buckinghamshire Archives (prior to 2020 the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies) is the county record office for Buckinghamshire, England. It houses the former Buckinghamshire Record Office and the former Buckinghamshire Local Studies Library. It is located in the offices of

Buckinghamshire Council Buckinghamshire Council is a unitary local authority in England, the area of which constitutes most of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire. It was created in April 2020 from the areas that were previously administered by Buckinghamshire Cou ...

, in Walton Street, Aylesbury. The principal collections cover current-day Buckinghamshire (the areas administered by

and

Milton Keynes Council Milton Keynes City Council is the local authority of the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It has both borough status a ...

), as well as those areas of the county that are now in Berkshire, and include records from a range of organisations, families and individuals, notably: * Church of England and Nonconformist churches including registers of baptism, marriage and burial * Around 35,000 wills proved by the Archdeaconry of Buckingham * County and District Councils * Quarter and Petty Session courts * Landed estates of families including the Aubrey-Fletchers, Hampdens, Carringtons and Fremantles * Historic maps including

Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was a ...

, tithe and inclosure maps The Archive also holds: * A wide range of local history books, some for loan. * Pamphlets and articles of local history interest. * Local newspapers * Computers for access to family history resources like ''Ancestry'' and ''FreeBMD''. Individual highlights within the collections include: the

Winslow Winslow may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England, a market town and civil parish * Winslow Rural District, Buckinghamshire, a rural district from 1894 to 1974 United States and Canada * Rural Municipality of Winslo ...

Manor court records and rolls, from 1327 onwards; records of the courts of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, from 1483 onwards; the Charter to Incorporate the Borough of Buckingham by Letters Patent of

Mary I Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She ...

, 1554; the

cartulary A cartulary or chartulary (; Latin: ''cartularium'' or ''chartularium''), also called ''pancarta'' or ''codex diplomaticus'', is a medieval manuscript volume or roll (''rotulus'') containing transcriptions of original documents relating to the fo ...

Missenden Abbey Missenden Abbey (also referred to as Great Missenden Abbey) is a former Arrouaisian order, Arrouasian (Rule of St Augustine, Augustinian) monastery, founded in 1133 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. The abbey was Dissolution of ...

; the journal of Georgiana Grenfell of

Taplow Court Taplow Court is a Victorian house in the village of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, England. Its origins are an Elizabethan manor house, remodelled in the early 17th century. In the 18th century the court was owned by the Earls of Orkney. In the 185 ...

originally created for her children but by 1870 becoming her own personal journal, together with other papers of the Grenfell family; archives and records of

Stoke Mandeville Hospital Stoke Mandeville Hospital is a large National Health Service (NHS) hospital located on the parish borders of Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, England. It is managed by Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. It was established i ...

; papers and correspondence of the poet Theodora Roscoe; the 1798 '' posse comitatus'' of the

Marquess of Buckingham Marquess of Buckingham may refer to: * George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628) Marquess of Buckingham from 1618 until elevated to Duke of Buckingham in 1623 * George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753–1813), ...

Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire There has been a Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire almost continuously since the position was created by King Henry VIII in 1535. The only exception to this was the English Civil War and English Interregnum between 1643 and 1660 when there wa ...

; and papers of Lord Carrington, including non-Carrington items such as the "Wycombe Family Notes", compiled by Charles W. Raffety.Buckinghamshire Record Society website
/ref> The current County Archivist for Buckinghamshire Archives is Daniel Williams, since December 2020.

References

External links

Official siteOnline catalogue
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