Buckinghamshire Archives
Buckinghamshire Archives is the county record office for Buckinghamshire, England. It houses the former Buckinghamshire Record Office and the former Buckinghamshire Local Studies Library. It is located in the offices of Buckinghamshire Council, in Walton Street, Aylesbury.
The principal collections cover current-day Buckinghamshire, as well as those areas of the county that are now in Berkshire, and include records from a range of organisations, families and individuals, notably:
- Church of England and Nonconformist churches including registers of baptism, marriage and burial
- Around 35,000 wills proved by the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- County and District Councils
- Quarter and Petty Session courts
- Landed estates of families including the Aubrey-Fletchers, Hampdens, Carringtons and Fremantles
- Historic maps including Ordnance Survey, tithe and inclosure maps
- A wide range of local history books, some for loan.
- Pamphlets and articles of local history interest.
- Local newspapers
- Computers for access to family history resources like Ancestry and FreeBMD.
The current County Archivist is Daniel Williams, since November 2020.