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{{Short description|Hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England}}
{{For|the railway station|Verney Junction railway station}}
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[[File:Verney Arms Pub.jpg|thumb|alt=A substantial brick building at a bend in the road, with pub sign reading "Verney Arms"|The ''Verney Arms'', the local pub, 2006]]
[[File:Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Princes Risboro, Quainton Road & Verney Ashendon RJD 146.jpg|thumb|right|A 1911 [[Railway Clearing House]] map of railways leading to Verney Junction]]
'''Verney Junction''' is a [[hamlet (UK place)|hamlet]] in the [[parish]] of [[Middle Claydon]] in north [[Buckinghamshire]], England.<ref name=OS165>{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 165 ''Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard (Thame & Berkhamsted)''|ISBN= 9780319229163 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2012}}</ref>  It is on the route of the former [[Varsity Line]]. {{As of|December 2017}}, the line is disused but is scheduled to be reopened by about 2025 as part of the [[East West Rail]] project.<ref name=RTM221117>[https://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/chancellor-accepts-east-west-rail-targets-and-strengthens-plans-with-extra-cash Chancellor accepts East West Rail targets and strengthens plans with extra cash, Rail Technology Magazine, 22.11.2017]</ref><ref>[https://www.eastwestrail.org.uk/2017/12/14/transport-secretary-officially-launches-east-west-railway-company-bletchley-park/ Transport Secretary officially launches East West Railway Company at Bletchley Park] East West Rail, 22 November 2017</ref>

The stone cottages that make up the hamlet were largely constructed to provide houses for workers on the railway in the early [[Victorian era]].  The hamlet is named after the [[railway junction]] around which it grew. The new village included a cricket ground for the railway workers.

The original junction here was established (without a station) by the [[Buckinghamshire Railway]], which planned a [[Bletchley]] {{snd}} [[Banbury]] route (subsequently the '[[Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line]]') and a Bletchley {{snd}} [[Oxford]] route.  The {{rws|Bletchley}} {{snd}} {{rws|Banbury Merton Street}} section was completed in May 1850 and the section from here to {{rws|Oxford Rewley Road}} was completed in October of the same year. [[Verney Junction railway station]] was added when the [[Metropolitan Railway]] was extended here (from [[Baker Street]]).

Local legend has it that the station was so called because the then isolation of the area meant that the only obvious name was that of the local landowner, the [[Verney family]] of [[Claydon House]].{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}

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