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Local Information for Iver

Iver is located in the south-east corner of the county of Buckinghamshire and it forms one of the largest parishes in the South Bucks district

The Parish of Iver covers about eight square miles (21 km²) and it includes the villages of Iver Heath and Iver. To their south is Richings Park. The center of London is located approximately twenty miles (30 km) away. The parish flanks the Greater London border in the vicinity of Uxbridge for several miles and it is located to the east of the town of Slough. Iver Heath, Iver and Richings Park straddle the M25 motorway which is intersected to the north above Iver Heath by the M40, and to the south beneath Richings Park, by the M4.

The village name Iver is Anglo Saxon in origin and means (place by) the brow of the hill. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the whole area was recorded as Evreham or homestead by the brow of a hill and it was in the possession of a man called Robert Doiley.

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