Egypt, Buckinghamshire
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Egypt is a hamlet in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England.<ref name=OS175>Template:Cite map</ref><ref name=OSGaz50>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is located within Farnham Royal civil parish, just to the north of Farnham Common, and on the edge of Burnham Beeches.
It is thought that the hamlet was so named because it was a common settling point for Romani travellers,<ref name="guardian">Template:Cite news</ref> and the term "gypsy" for such people derives from the Greek {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Aigyptioi), meaning Egyptian.