Long Crendon

Long Crendon is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England

The village has only been known as Long Crendon since the English Civil War. 

The "Long" prefix refers simply to the length of the village at that time, and was added to differentiate it from nearby Grendon Underwood.

Previously it was simply known as Crendon. 

This name is Anglo-Saxon and means Creoda's Hill 

"Crendon" was the caput of the feudal honour held by Walter Giffard (died 1102), created Earl of Buckingham by William the Conqueror.

The village has a long and illustrious history. The Manor in Long Crendon was once a great building that housed the Earls of Buckingham

In 1162 an order of Augustine monks was founded in the village at nearby Notley Abbey.

The park in which the abbey stood was donated to the abbey itself by the incumbent of the manor, the Earl of Buckingham.

At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries the annual income was calculated as over £437: an immense amount of money for the time. The abbey still stands, though is now a manor house in its own right.

In 1218 Long Crendon was granted a royal charter to hold a weekly market; the monies from which were to be collected by William Earl Marshall who owned the manor at that time.

The town (as it was then) was certainly important in this period as it shared the distinction with Aylesbury as being the only places in the whole of England where needles were manufactured.