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The village first made an appearance in the Domesday Book in which it was called Cetendone, which means "Cetta's Hill" in English. The parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles. There is also a Methodist church with a large congregation.

The village manor house is a much gabled and half timbered red brick building under a tiled roof, dating from the 16th century. Cheddington Manor, not open to the public, forms with its gardens and their lake one of the more attractive Buckinghamshire manor houses.

The village contains two public houses: The Swan, a beautiful 'olde worlde' thatched inn, and The Horseshoes. A third inn, known as the Rosebery Arms, designed by the well known Victorian architect George DeveyGeorge Devey was born in London in 1820, the second son of Frederick and Ann Devey. He was educated in London; after leaving school he initially studied art, as his ambition at that time was to be an artist, before training as an architect. He had a Londo has recently been converted into houses.

In 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey Cheddington featured in the national press as it was near the location of the Great Train Robbery. In 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe, again Cheddington achieved national notoriety as the location of the first assault by a violent and bisexual armed rapist, nicknamed because of his cunning and nocturnal attacks, as The FoxThis article is about the English criminal. There is also an American entertainer known as "The Fox" named Bill "The Fox" Foster. The Fox was the nickname given to Malcolm Fairley who, in the summer of 1984 attacked several victims in their homes at night.

In the last thirty years Cheddington, due to its railway station, and easy access to four towns has more than quadrupled in size. While in some ways a commuter or dormitory village, it has a lively community with many facilities and clubs that are the envy of other parishes in the county. In information released from the 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap censusA census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). It can be contrasted with sampling in which information is only obtained from a subset of a population. As such it is a method used f, Cheddington has the highest density of people under the age of 35 in the whole county of Buckinghamshire.