That’s its name – Brill. It sits on Brill hill and has the Brill school.
Brill is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the boundary with Oxfordshire.
- Brill’s name is a combination of Brythonic and Anglo Saxon words for hill
- Brill is known for its windmill which was restored in 2009.
- Brill railway station was once a north-western terminus of the London Underground system.
- Brill has a school called Brill school. We wonder if it is a brill school?
- The perpetrators of the Great Train Robbery in 1963 hid in the outskirts of Brill.
- Mick Pointer, drummer and founding member of the progressive rock bands Marillion and Arena was born on 22 July 1956 in Brill.
- The population of Brill is around 1,200
- Most of the houses in Brill are privately owned and clustered at the top of Brill Hill.