Saunderton is a village in the south west of Buckinghamshire.
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| County: | Buckinghamshire |
| Parish: | Bledlow-cum-Saunderton |
| Population: | 2469 (parish) |
Saunderton has Saxon origins, though remains of a Roman villa and Iron Age settlement traces have also been found nearby. In the Domesday Book the village was listed as Santesdune which may derive from the Old English for Saint's Hill.
The village is split across three locations, with some distance between the part of Saunderton where the 12th century parish church dedicated to St Mary (and later St Nicholas also) is located and the part where Saunderton railway station is located.
At the latter part of the village, along the A4010 road, a workhouse was built for the Union of High Wycombe. Inmates who regularly escaped from other workhouses were bought here because of it's remote location!
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| Fields at Saunderton |
