Radclive
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Radclive is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about a mile to the west of Buckingham.
The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'red cliff', referring to the colour of the local soil and its location on a cliff overlooking the River Ouse. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Radeclive.
The parish is known as 'Radclive-cum-Chackmore', although Radclive and the hamlet of Chackmore are two distinctly separate places.
Radclive parish church is dedicated to St John the Evangelist. Parts of the building date to 1200 though the tower is believed to be 100 years later. There are some rare early English benches decorated with poppy heads, and a Jacobean communion rail with openwork balustrading. The nave window contains some rare examples of 14th century stained glass, which miraculously survived the reformation and the English Civil War.
The Manor House built approximately 1620 is the remaining part of a much larger mansion. The house contains an original oak staircase which has an open balustrade with finial topped ovals and lozenges, very similar in design to the staircase at Princes Risborough Manor House.
