Editing Wexham

{{Short description|Civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| official_name = Wexham
| unitary_england = [[Buckinghamshire Council|Buckinghamshire]] & [[Borough of Slough|Slough]]
| lieutenancy_england = [[Buckinghamshire]]
| region = South East England
| constituency_westminster = [[Beaconsfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Beaconsfield]]
| post_town = Slough
| postcode_district = SL3
| postcode_area = SL
| dial_code = 01753
| population = 2458
| population_ref = (2021 census)<ref name="Census21" />
| area_total_km2 = 11.19
| os_grid_reference = SU9983
| coordinates = {{coord|51.542|-0.566|type:city(2000)_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| label_position = top
| static_image_name = Wexham - St Mary's Church - geograph.org.uk - 1114106.jpg
| static_image_caption = St Mary's parish church
| website = {{URL|https://wexhamparishcouncil.chessck.co.uk/|Parish Council}}
}}

'''Wexham''' is a [[civil parish]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] in southern England. The largest settlement in the parish is the hamlet of George Green; there are also Wexham Street (half of which is in [[Stoke Poges]] parish) and [[Middlegreen]]. The parish includes part of the forest of [[Burnham Beeches]], and had a population of 2,458 at the 2021 census.<ref name="Census21">{{Cite web |title=Wexham: population statistics, 2021 Census |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/southeastengland/admin/buckinghamshire/E04001591__wexham/ |access-date=20 January 2025 |website=CityPopulation.de}}</ref>

The separate parish of '''Wexham Court''' was created in 1974 from western parts of Wexham parish that were transferred to the [[Borough of Slough]] in [[Berkshire]]. [[Wexham Park Hospital]] is a large hospital within the Wexham Court parish.

==History==
The parish of Wexham originally covered a relatively small {{convert|748|acre|km2|1}} (1.2&nbsp;square miles) according to the 1881 and 1891 censuses. It was almost doubled in 1934 by taking in {{convert|1823|acre|km2}} and about 1,000 people from the dissolved [[Langley Marish]] parish, a very long [[strip parish]] part of which was taken in by [[Gerrards Cross]] almost four miles to the north.

Wexham civil parish was split into two parishes in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]]. A new parish called Wexham Court was created from the southern part of the old parish, which was placed in the Borough of Slough and transferred to Berkshire. The reduced Wexham parish remained in Buckinghamshire.<ref>[http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3687238 OpenStreetMap: Wexham Court CP]</ref>

Wexham Court has a parish council with 11 members. It and some additional unparished territory formed the current (adjustable) three-member [[Slough Borough Council]] [[Wards of the United Kingdom|ward]] of Wexham Lea.

In 2018, the parish of Wexham Court and neighbouring [[Britwell]] were scheduled for abolition in April 2019, but after an appeal by the parish councils and a judicial review the order was quashed and the parishes remain unchanged.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/Reviews/South%20East/Berkshire/West%20Berkshire/CGR/SloughCC-SloughCGR-2019-01-21.pdf|title=The Slough Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2019|publisher=[[Local Government Boundary Commission for England]]|accessdate=13 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slough.gov.uk/consultations-petitions/community-governance-review-2018/5?documentId=611&categoryId=20150|title=Community Governance Review 2018, Judicial review|publisher=Slough Borough Council}}</ref>

The village has a 12th-century parish church and the 16th century Wexham Court. It has protected green spaces comprising woodland, Langley Park and Black Park Country Park.

==Demography==
{| class="wikitable"										
|- 										
|+ 2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005<ref name=ons>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005]</ref>							
|-										
!Output area||Homes owned outright||Owned with a loan||Socially rented||Privately rented||Other||km<sup>2</sup> roads||km<sup>2</sup> water||km<sup>2</sup>  domestic gardens||km<sup>2</sup> domestic buildings||km<sup>2</sup> non-domestic buildings||Usual residents ||km<sup>2</sup>										
|- align=center										
|Civil parish|| 453	||	307	||	94	||	73	||	9	||	0.247	||	0.205	||	0.508	||	0.084	||	0.048	||	2378	||	11.19
|}

==Education==
The parish relies for its education on neighbouring villages with greater populations, save that the Japanese international boarding school [[Teikyo School United Kingdom]] is in Wexham.<ref name=HeadWelc>"[http://www.teikyofoundation.com/english/index.html Head's Welcome]." ([https://archive.today/20140109030323/http://www.teikyofoundation.com/english/index.html Archive]) [[Teikyo School United Kingdom]]. Retrieved on 8 January 2014. "Framewood Road, Wexham, Buckinghamshire SL2 4QS UK"</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|South East England}}
*{{HMS|Wexham}}, a {{sclass2|Ham|minesweeper||ship}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://wexhamparishcouncil.chessck.co.uk Wexham Parish Council]
* [https://wexhamcourtparishcouncil.gov.uk/ Wexham Court Parish Council]

{{South Bucks|state=expanded}}
{{Slough suburbs}}

[[Category:Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire]]