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The village name 'Claydon' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'clay hill'. The affix 'Middle' is used to differentiate the village from nearby Steeple Claydon , and East Claydon , and from the Hamlet of Botolph Claydon . In the Domesday Book of 1086 the Claydon area was recorded as ''Claindone''. Middle Claydon is the location of Claydon House , that was the home of Sir Edmund Verney , an English Civil War Royalist , and of Florence Nightingale . The Parish church is dedicated to All Saints . |
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