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Leckhampstead Road, BUCKINGHAM, MK18 5HD

Situated in Chapel Lane, Akeley, MK18 5HU, this TE, which has the code SMLD, replaced the former TE in Lillingstone Dayrell in the early 1970s, SP6939 refers http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1401343. It provides telephone and broadband services to 370 residential and 26 non-residential premises in two places, plus Leckhampstead and Lillingstone Lovell nearby. The numbering range of this TE is (01280) 860xxx, the (01280) referring to the Buckingham group of TEs.

Picked out in mown grass, the outline can be seen of where the erstwhile church of St.James the Apostle once stood in its churchyard in Akeley. A church had existed in Akeley since at least 1164, but this was replaced by a new building in 1854 - there is a plan of this later church here - http://www.churchplansonline.org/show_full_image.asp?resource_id=04774.tif This new church was obviously not as well constructed as the old one however as it required demolishing in 1979 due to the parlous state of its stonework. The church had rectors dating back to 1234 see http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Akeley/rectors.html Here is a link to a photograph of the 1854 church taken c. 1960 http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/photo_database/photodb_detail.asp?Counter=72

The churchyard in Akeley is a little mysterious. The church of St.James the Apostle is no longer there and the gravestones lean in towards the sunken path. See http://www.churchplansonline.org/show_full_image.asp?resource_id=04774.tif and http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Akeley/rectors.html

Taken over the gate to the churchyard of a church that no longer exists.

Aerial view taken in 1996 when we had just completed the renovation of Verendale, the thatched cottage at the centre of the picture. The brick cottage is The Old School House and the building in the foreground is The Old School. The Bull & Butcher PH in The Square is part seen far right.