The town name is of Old English origin. It is first recorded in the form Æglesburg in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a text which took its present form in the later ninth century. The word Ægles is a personal name in the genitive case, … See more

Excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an Iron Age hill fort dating from the early 4th century BCE.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle portrays Aylesbury as being captured from the Britons by … See more

In the 18th century selective breeding of white common ducks led to a white domestic duck, generally known as the English White. Since at least the 1690s ducks had been farmed in Aylesbury, and made Ayle… See more

The town's population has grown from 28,000 in the 1960s to almost 72,000 in 2011 due in the main to new housing developments, including many London overspill housing estates, built to ease pressure o… See more

Housing estates in or neighbourhoods of the modern Aylesbury include:
• Bedgrove
• Berryfields
• Broughton
• Buckingham Park… See more