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Turville is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills, five miles west of High Wycombe and five miles north of Henley-on-Thames. The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means 'dry field'. It was recorded in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' in 796 as ''Thyrefeld''. The manor of Turville once belonged to the abbey at St Albans, but was seized by the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1547. The manor house has since been rebuilt as Turville Park. The present incumbent of the manor is Lord Sainsbury. Turville was home to Ellen Sadler, who fell asleep in 1871, aged eleven, and purportedly did not wake for nine years, becoming known as "The Sleeping Girl of Turvile". The case attracted international attention from newspapers, medical professionals and the public. Rumours persist in the region that Sadler was visited by royalty for a "laying on of hands".〔Barham, Tony (1973). ''Witchcraft in the Thames Valley''. Spurbooks. pp. 20–27. ISBN 9780902875371.〕〔Staff (November 6, 2009). ("Our very own 'Sleeping Beauty ). Bucks Free Press (Gannett Company).〕 The local pub is the Bull and Butcher.〔(The Bull and Butcher website )〕 Turville Hill is a Site of Special Scientific Importance, and it includes Cobstone Windmill. ==Notable people== *Geoffrey de Turville (died 1250), Lord Chancellor of Ireland *Charles François Dumouriez (1739-1823), French royalist general *Ellen Sadler (1859-1901), tourist attraction *Lord Sainsbury of Turville (born 1940), businessman, politician, and philanthropist *Sir John Mortimer, (1923-2009), Barrister, playwright, novelist 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Turville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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