{{Short description|Village in Buckinghamshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |official_name= Hedgerley |coordinates = {{coord|51.576|-0.602|display=inline,title}} |os_grid_reference= SU9687 |static_image_name=Hedgerley Church.JPG |static_image_caption= Saint Mary the Virgin parish church |static_image_2_name=Cottages in Hedgerley - geograph.org.uk - 150560.jpg |static_image_2_caption=Cottages in Hedgerley |population= 873 |population_ref=(2011 census including Jordans)<ref name=ons>{{Cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |title=Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005 |access-date=25 January 2015 |archive-date=11 February 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> |area_total_km2=6.8 |civil_parish= Hedgerley |unitary_england = Buckinghamshire |lieutenancy_england = Buckinghamshire |region= South East England |country= England |constituency_westminster= Beaconsfield |post_town= Slough |postcode_district= SL2 |postcode_area= SL |dial_code= 01753 |website= }}

'''Hedgerley''' is a village and civil parish in South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is centred {{convert|3|mi|km}} south-east of Beaconsfield and {{convert|2.5|mi|km}} south-west of Gerrards Cross. The parish has incorporated the formerly separate parish of '''Hedgerley Dean''' since 1934 (which was once a hamlet in parish of Farnham Royal).<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10195974 A Vision of Britain through Time: Relationships / unit history of Hedgerley] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930210148/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10195974 |date=2007-09-30 }}</ref>

The toponym name "Hedgerley" is derived from the Old English meaning "Hycga's woodland clearing". In manorial rolls in 1195 it was recorded as ''Huggeleg''.<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of Place Names''{{Clarify|date=August 2010}}</ref>

==Architecture and geography== Situated in the foothills of the Chiltern Hills, Hedgerley is a linear layout of red-brick and timber-framed cottages, amongst which Victoria Cottages date from the 16th century.<ref name=Pevsner>Pevsner, 1973, page 160</ref> It is bounded to the north by the M40 motorway.

The old Quaker House on the northern edge of the village dates from 1487.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin was designed by the Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Ferrey and built in 1852.<ref name=Pevsner/> The Tudor Revival Rectory was built in 1846.<ref name=Pevsner/>

==In film, fiction and the media== The 1953 British film Genevieve was shot on roads around Pinewood Studios and the couples stop for a “hair of the dog” at the old (now demolished) One Pin pub with Genevieve seen driving down Hedgerley Hill as well as actors John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan filmed in Collinswood Road.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4833827.hedgerley-pub-used-for-classic-film-bulldozed/|title = Pub used for classic film bulldozed}}</ref>

Scenes from Lionel Jeffries' 1972 family film ''The Amazing Mr Blunden'' were filmed in the village and at the church.

The village including the fields and woods of the parish featured in the episode "Secrets & Spies" of ''Midsomer Murders''.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

==Demography== {| class="wikitable" |- |+ '''2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005<ref name=ons />''' |- !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|| 125 || 126 || 66 || 36 || 3 || 0.113 || 0.016 || 0.243 || 0.033 || 0.014 || 873 || 6.8 |}

The village's most notable resident was the infamous Judge Jeffreys (1645–89).

A few fields in the parish are called the sea fields as in spring they become full with bluebells.

==References== {{reflist}}

==Sources== *{{Cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire |orig-year=1966 |year=1973 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071019-1 |page=160}}

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Category:Villages in Buckinghamshire Category:Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire