Verney Junction

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 Verney family of Claydon House.

Until 1936 Verney Junction station was the northern outpost of the Metropolitan Railway from Baker Street. It was the junction of that line with the "Varsity Line" from Oxford to Cambridge, and legend has it that it was so called because the then isolation of the area meant that the only obvious name was that of the local landowner. There was also a railway line to Banbury, via Buckingham and Brackley.

The permanent way from Quainton Road to here has been closed and lifted and although one single track of the Varsity Line remains, this is rusted and overgrown far beyond use (even so, there are modern signs in place about watching out for trains before crossing the line).

Of the station itself, the building remains (it is now a private house) as do the platforms (though these are in a very poor state). The trackbed that would have served the Metropolitan Railway is now taken up with the house's garden.

The station is considered among one of London's disused underground stations, though it is some 50 miles from London Baker Street and is not underground.

There have been recent proposal to re-open the Varsity Line, but it is unlikely this would involve Verney Junction as it serves no significant settlement.