| Buckinghamshire Archives | |
| Type: | County record office |
| Formed: | 1938 |
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| Headquarters: | Walton Street Offices, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire |
| Employees: | 13 |
Buckinghamshire Archives (prior to 2020 the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies[1]) 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, in Walton Street, Aylesbury.
The principal collections cover current-day Buckinghamshire (the areas administered by Buckinghamshire Council and Milton Keynes Council), 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:
The Archive also holds:
Individual highlights within the collections include: the Winslow 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, 1554; the cartulary of Missenden Abbey; the journal of Georgiana Grenfell of Taplow Court 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; papers and correspondence of the poet Theodora Roscoe; the 1798 posse comitatus of the Marquess of Buckingham as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire; and papers of Lord Carrington, including non-Carrington items such as the "Wycombe Family Notes", compiled by Charles W. Raffety.[2] [3]
The current County Archivist is Daniel Williams, since November 2020.