Ivinghoe

Ivinghoe is a historic market town and a civil parish in the east of Buckinghamshire, in England, near the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire borders [1]. The name of the place is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is glossed as 'Ifa's hill-spur' [1]. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the settlement under the name Evinghehou [1]. The village stands inside the Chiltern Hills, at the edge of the Chilterns' Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty [1]. Ivinghoe is an important point on the Icknield Way, a route claimed to be the oldest road in Britain, though that claim has been disputed [1]. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin dates from 1220, was burnt in 1234 in an act of spite against the local bishop, and was rebuilt in 1241 [1].