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{{Short description|Hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England}}
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[[File:St Peters Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 42833.jpg|thumb|St Peters Chapel.]]
[[File:Victorian Pillar box in Owlswick - geograph.org.uk - 43219.jpg|thumb|Victorian Pillar box in Owlswick.]]
[[File:Working windpump near Owlswick - geograph.org.uk - 43221.jpg|thumb|Working windpump near Owlswick.]]
'''Owlswick''' is a [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] in [[Buckinghamshire]], England, about 3 miles E of [[Thame]] and 4 miles SSE of [[Aylesbury]].  It is part of the [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] of [[Longwick-cum-Ilmer]] and is in the ecclesiastical parish of [[Monks Risborough]].

The name appears in a document of about 1200 as Ulveswike, meaning the dairy farm of Ulf, which was a Danish personal name. The district is well to the south of the [[Danelaw]], but a man of Danish origin may have come south and settled here.<ref>Mawer & Stenton: The Place Names of Buckinghamshire (Cambridge 1925)</ref>

The hamlet was not mentioned in [[Domesday Book]] in 1086 because it formed part of the manor of [[Monks Risborough]].  It was later subinfeudated (i.e. granted as a feudal sub-manor) to a military subtenant and was held by [[knight-service]] by the 13th century. It continued as a separate sub-manor, paying a [[quit-rent]] to the manor of Monks Risborough until [[copyhold]] tenure was abolished in 1925.<ref>Victoria History of the County of Buckingham Vol.2 (1908) p.257</ref>

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