Aylesbury sits about 60 km north of Moose Jaw, in the Rural Municipality of Craik No. 222. It was named after Aylesbury, a town in Buckinghamshire, England. A Parrish & Heimbecker grain elevator went up in 1906, and the village incorporated on March 31, 1910. The elevator was the last one to operate in Aylesbury, working until the mid-1990s, and it was demolished in October 2009.
The Aylesbury School opened in 1909. It closed in 1970, and its students were sent to the school in nearby Craik.
In the 1980s the village drew national media attention when residents rallied to keep Canada Post from closing their post office. The effort did not succeed, and today postal service is contracted to the Aylesbury Hotel.
Aylesbury was the childhood home of Ashley Luther, who modelled and advocated for women's health as Elly Mayday. Outside the village, a life-size ox and cart was erected in 1999 as part of a series of monuments along Highway 11. Don Wilkins created it, along with metal sculptures for neighbouring Craik and Girvin.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Aylesbury, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.