Botolph Claydon
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|official_name= Botolph Claydon
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|unitary_england = Buckinghamshire
|lieutenancy_england = Buckinghamshire
|region= South East England
|constituency_westminster= Aylesbury
|post_town= BUCKINGHAM
|postcode_district= MK18
|postcode_area= MK
|dial_code= 01296
|os_grid_reference= SP7324
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Botolph Claydon is a hamlet in the civil parish of East Claydon, in Buckinghamshire, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 165 Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard (Thame & Berkhamsted)|ISBN= 9780319229163 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html|title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer|format=csv (download)|date= 1 January 2016|publisher=Ordnance Survey|website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk|access-date=30 January 2016}} It is situated about {{convert|9|mi}} east of Bicester in Oxfordshire, and {{convert|7|mi}} north west of Aylesbury.
Anciently the hamlet was called Botyl Claydon. The prefix comes from the Anglo-Saxon word botyl meaning 'house'. The word Claydon is also Anglo Saxon, and means 'clay hill'.
File:Public Library Botolph Claydon - geograph.org.uk - 714009.jpg
The village hall, built in 1912, was once the village library and was donated to the villages of East and Botolph Claydon by the Verney Family.{{Cite web|url=http://theclaydons.org/village-hall/|title = VILLAGE HALL – East & Botolph Claydon Village}}