Poundon
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Poundon is a hamlet and a civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located near the Oxfordshire border, about four miles northeast of Bicester, three miles southwest of Steeple Claydon.
The hamlet name is Anglo Saxon in origin, though its meaning is uncertain. In manorial rolls of 1255 it was recorded as Paundon.
Poundon Hill wireless station
Poundon Hill wireless station was a FCO/MI6 signals intelligence station just outside the hamlet. [2] The site is now Tower Hill Business Park. During the Second World War Poundon and Poundon House were sites of stations 53b and 53c of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).[3]
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- Aylesbury Constituency
- Buckingham Constituency
(component
areas and hamlets)
(component villages
and hamlets)
- Addington
- Adstock
- Akeley
- Ashendon
- Aston Clinton
- Aston Abbotts
- Aston Sandford
- Barton Hartshorn
- Beachampton
- Berryfields
- Biddlesden
- Bierton
- Boarstall
- Brill
- Broughton Hamlet
- Buckingham Park
- Buckland
- Calvert Green
- Charndon
- Chearsley
- Cheddington
- Chetwode
- Chilton
- Coldharbour
- Creslow
- Cublington
- Cuddington
- Dinton-with-Ford and Upton
- Dorton
- Drayton Beauchamp
- Drayton Parslow
- Dunton
- East Claydon
- Edgcott
- Edlesborough
- Fleet Marston
- Foscott
- Gawcott with Lenborough
- Granborough
- Great Brickhill
- Great Horwood
- Grendon Underwood
- Haddenham
- Halton
- Hardwick
- Hillesden
- Hoggeston
- Hogshaw
- Hulcott
- Ickford
- Ivinghoe
- Kingsbrook
- Kingsey
- Kingswood
- Leckhampstead
- Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey
- Lillingstone Lovell
- Little Horwood
- Long Crendon
- Ludgershall
- Maids Moreton
- Marsh Gibbon
- Marsworth
- Mentmore
- Middle Claydon
- Mursley
- Nash
- Nether Winchendon
- Newton Longville
- North Marston
- Oakley
- Oving
- Padbury
- Pitchcott
- Pitstone
- Poundon
- Preston Bissett
- Quainton
- Quarrendon
- Radclive-cum-Chackmore
- Shabbington
- Shalstone
- Slapton
- Soulbury
- Steeple Claydon
- Stewkley
- Stoke Hammond
- Stoke Mandeville
- Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell
- Stowe
- Swanbourne
- Thornborough
- Thornton
- Tingewick
- Turweston
- Twyford
- Upper Winchendon
- Waddesdon
- Water Stratford
- Watermead
- Weedon
- Weedon
- Westbury
- Westcott
- Weston Turville
- Whaddon
- Whitchurch
- Wing
- Wingrave
- Woodham
- Worminghall
- Wotton Underwood
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- Wendover Constituency
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