Cooks Wharf

Cooks Wharf is a hamlet in the parish of Cheddington, in Buckinghamshire, England.[1][2] It is located where the main road into Cheddington from Pitstone crosses the Grand Union Canal. At the 2011 Census the population of the area was included in the civil parish of Marsworth.

Cooks Wharf
Cooks Wharf
Location within Buckinghamshire
OS grid referenceSP9216
Civil parish
  • Cheddington
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLeighton Buzzard
Postcode districtLU7
PoliceThames Valley
FireBuckinghamshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament

Apples from the surrounding orchards were loaded onto the narrowboats here to travel down the canal to London.

References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 165 Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard (Thame & Berkhamsted) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319229163.
  2. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.


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