Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

For comparison purposes that is approximately the same size as Aylesbury, Carlisle, Guildford or Scunthorpe urban areas.

The list of supposed members is immense ; among the more probable candidates are George Bubb Dodington, a fabulously corpulent man in his 60s ; William Hogarth, although hardly a gentleman, has been associated with the club after painting Dashwood as a Franciscan Friar and John Wilkes, though much later, under the pseudonym John of Aylesbury.

* Aylesbury is granted the county town of Buckinghamshire in England by King Henry VIII.

John Otway, ( born 2 October 1952, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England ) is an English singer-songwriter, who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona.

Another large example, the Aylesbury Estate in South London, built in 1970, is about to be demolished.

Much of this line is shared with the mainline railway service, which runs from Marylebone to Aylesbury.

The town is located at the junction of the A355 road from Slough and Beaconsfield, the A404 road that links Maidenhead, High Wycombe and Harrow, the A416 road from Chesham and Berkhamsted and the A413 road, which runs from Aylesbury to Uxbridge.

Aylesbury () is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England.

At the Norman Conquest, the king took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is listed as a royal manor in the Domesday Book, 1086.

Its premises at the Chantry in Church Street, Aylesbury, are still there, though today the site is occupied mainly by almshouses.

Aylesbury was declared the county town of Buckinghamshire in 1529 by King Henry VIII: Aylesbury Manor was among the many properties belonging to Thomas Boleyn the father of Anne Boleyn and it is rumoured that the change was made by the king in order to curry favour with the holders of the manor.

Its proximity to Great Hampden, home of John Hampden has made of Hampden a local hero: his silhouette is on the emblem used by Aylesbury Vale District Council and his statue stands prominently in the town centre.

Bourbon Street in Aylesbury is named after the king.

The town's heraldic crest is the Aylesbury duck, which has been bred here since the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

A notable institution is Aylesbury Grammar School which was founded in 1598.

The original building is now part of the County Museum buildings in Church Street ; other grammar schools now include Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School and Aylesbury High School.

Chequers, the country residence of the Prime Minister since 1921, is just four miles southeast of Aylesbury.

One of the more prominent buildings in Aylesbury is the " Blue Leanie " office block, home to Halifax Bank of Scotland ( HBOS ).

The town is served by Aylesbury railway station and Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station, the latter of which is the present terminus of passenger services from London Marylebone.

Aylesbury Town Council is the parish council within Aylesbury Vale district for the town.

Aylesbury is served by Buckinghamshire's first ' Rainbow Routes ' network of bus services.

Amersham station is also served by Chiltern Railways, which runs trains between London Marylebone and Aylesbury.

Princes Risborough is served primarily by the 300 Arriva Shires and Essex service which alternates between High Wycombe and Aylesbury on a half-hourly basis ( Mondays to Saturdays ) and hourly on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

Waddesdon is a closed station that served the village of Waddesdon and its manor, to the north of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.

Therefore, as well as Luton and Bedford ( and the rest of Beds ), Milton Keynes, Hemel Hempstead, Harpenden, Aylesbury, St Albans, Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth, Stevenage and Hitchin were served by the new station.

Chorleywood station is also served by Chiltern Railways, which runs trains from London Marylebone station through to Aylesbury.

Chorleywood station was formerly served by steam hauled Metropolitan Line trains from Aylesbury to London, with a changeover to an electric locomotive at Rickmansworth.

The way in which the judge conducted her trial was questioned and this was probably the reason her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, some of which she served in a prison in Woking, Surrey, and then at the " House of Detention " at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

The electrification was then extended north to Amersham and Chesham, leaving Aylesbury services to be served by British Rail Class 115 diesel multiple unit trains ( since replaced by Chiltern Railways Class 165 and Class 168 units ).

On the National Rail network, the station is served by Chiltern Railways trains between and Aylesbury whose next stopping points in each direction are and stations.

The London Underground service at Harrow-on-the-Hill is provided by the Metropolitan line, and the station is also served by the Chiltern Railways London to Aylesbury Line.

Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.

At Marsworth, about 35 miles ( 56 km ) from Brentford, two arms leave the main line, one to Wendover ( not currently navigable for its full length but being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust ) and the other descends through sixteen narrow locks for 4 miles ( 6 km ) to Aylesbury.

A bronze statue of Barker, in character as Norman Stanley Fletcher, sculpted by Martin Jennings, was unveiled in a public area at the entrance of the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre in September 2010 by his widow Joy, David Jason and Ronnie Corbett.

It was produced by the Redifon company of Aylesbury, UK.

Examples with photo-flash systems included the UK V-bomber simulators for the Valiant, Vulcan and Victor, produced by the Redifon company at Aylesbury and Crawley in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The money was driven up to Aylesbury and taken into custody by Detective Superintendent Fewtrell, who wondered how his London colleagues could know how much money there was.

Train services into the station are run by Chiltern Railways which serves the Chiltern Main Line and London to Aylesbury Line routes to,, Bicester,,,,, Birmingham ( Snow Hill ), Birmingham Moor Street Station and.

In 2008, as part of a scheme partly funded by the Department for Transport, about three miles of the line north of Aylesbury as far as the new Aylesbury Vale Parkway station were brought back into passenger use.

The first branch from the main line was the Aylesbury Railway, seven miles of single track, which opened in 1839 and was leased to the L & BR until purchased outright by the LNWR in 1846.

In 1450 a religious institution called the Guild of St Mary was founded in Aylesbury by John Kemp, Archbishop of York.

The town played a large part in the English Civil War when it became a stronghold for the Parliamentarian forces, like many market towns a nursing-ground of Puritan sentiment and in 1642 the Battle of Aylesbury was fought and won by the Parliamentarians.

Aylesbury born composer, Rutland Boughton ( 1878 – 1960 ), possibly inspired by the statue of John Hampden, created a symphony based on Oliver Cromwell.

Gentlemen of the Jury, an 1861 painting by John Morgan ( artist ) | John Morgan of a jury in Aylesbury

If plans to increase the size of the town by twenty thousand people go ahead, suburban Aylesbury could well meet up with the neighbouring villages of Bierton, Hartwell, Stoke Mandeville, Stone, Sedrup and Weston Turville.