Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, England. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Aeglesburgh ("fort of Aegel"), Aylesbury was a major market town during Anglo-Saxon times and was part of Mercia until the unification of England under Wessex in the early 10th century. In 1529, King Henry VIII made Aylesbury the new county town, and the manor was granted to Anne Boleyn's father Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. During the English Civil War, it was a nursing-ground of Puritan sentiment and was a Parliamentarian stronghold, and it was the site of the 1642 Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Aylesbury. By 2011, Aylesbury had a population of 58,740 people.
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