Country: | England |
Official Name: | Hardwick |
Static Image: | Hardwick from the church tower. - geograph.org.uk - 904466.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Hardwick from the church tower, 2008 |
Coordinates: | 51.8634°N -0.832°W |
Civil Parish: | Hardwick |
Population: | 315 |
Population Ref: | (2011 Census)[1] |
Unitary England: | Buckinghamshire |
Lieutenancy England: | Buckinghamshire |
Region: | South East England |
Constituency Westminster: | Aylesbury |
Post Town: | AYLESBURY |
Postcode District: | HP22 |
Postcode Area: | HP |
Dial Code: | 01296 |
Os Grid Reference: | SP805192 |
Hardwick is both a village and a civil parish within the Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale, about four miles north of Aylesbury.
Hardwick is a common place name in England, of Old English origin meaning 'livestock farm'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was known as Harduich.
Nearby Weedon is a hamlet in the parish of Hardwick.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and the churchyard contains a grave for the soldiers who died during the English Civil War at the Battle of Aylesbury in 1642.[2]