Hundridge is a

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Chartridge Chartridge is a village in Buckinghamshire, England situated 2 miles North West of Chesham. Chartridge is also the name of a civil parish in Chiltern District which also includes the village of Bellingdon and the hamlets of Pednor, Hundridge an ...

, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills to the west of the town 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 ...

. During the 14th century it was known as Hunderugge, and Hundrige in the 15th/16th century. The hamlet name derives from either the Anglo Saxon ''hunda-hrycg'' meaning 'hounds' ridge', or from ''Hundan-hrycg'' meaning 'Hunda's ridge'.Genuki UK and Ireland Genealogy – Chesham
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Chapel

Hundridge chapel is a mediaeval building which was used as a place of worship until the Reformation. It is now attached to Hundridge manor.

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