About the town » Weedon, Buckinghamshire, England, Great Britain

Weedon is a village and civil parish north of Aylesbury and south of Hardwick in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The toponym is derived from the Old English for "hill with a heathen temple". In records dated 1066 the village was recorded as Weodune. There was a railway station in the village between 1888 and 1958. Weedon has a Methodist Chapel and a pub called the Five Elms. To the east of the village is the hamlet of East End. Prior to 2011 land within the parish southwest of the village and adjoining the northern edge of Aylesbury was designated a 'major development area called Weedon Hill When completed the housing development will include 850 houses, a local centre and a secondary school Additionally, an extension of the Chiltern Line was constructed which included a new station, which opened in 2008, called Aylesbury Vale Parkway In 2010 the district council decided that from May 2011 the Weedon Hill development would form part of the new civil parish of Buckingham Park.