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List Of Schools In Milton Keynes
This is a list of schools in the City of Milton Keynes, in the English county of Buckinghamshire. State-funded schools Primary schools *Abbeys Primary School, Bletchley *Ashbrook School, Two Mile Ash *Barleyhurst Park Primary School, Bletchley *Bishop Parker RC Primary School, Bletchley *Bow Brickhill CE Primary School, Bow Brickhill *Bradwell Village School, Bradwell *Brooklands Farm Primary School, Brooklands *Brooksward School, Neath Hill *Broughton Fields Primary School, Broughton *Bushfield School, Wolverton *Caroline Haslett Primary School, Shenley Lodge *Castlethorpe First School, Castlethorpe *Cedars Primary School, Newport Pagnell *Charles Warren Academy, Simpson *Chestnuts Primary School, Bletchley *Christ The Sower Ecumenical Primary School, Grange Farm *Cold Harbour CE School, Bletchley *Downs Barn School, Downs Barn *Drayton Park School, Bletchley *Emerson Valley School, Emerson Valley *Fairfields Primary School, Fairfields *Falconhurst School, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Milton Keynes
The City of Milton Keynes is a unitary authority area with both borough and city status, in Buckinghamshire. It is the northernmost district of the South East England Region. The borough abuts Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and the remainder of Buckinghamshire. The principal built-up area in the borough is the Milton Keynes urban area, which accounts for about 20% of its area and 90% of its population. The ONS's provisional return from the 2021 census reports that the population of the borough has reached approximately 287,000. History The local authority was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as a District under the (then) Buckinghamshire County Council, by the merger of Bletchley Urban District, Newport Pagnell Urban District, Newport Pagnell Rural District and Wolverton Urban District, together with that part of Wing Rural District within the designated New Town area. The district council applied for and received borough status that year. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Linford
Great Linford is a historic village, district and wider civil parish in the northern part of Milton Keynes, England, between Wolverton and Newport Pagnell. Great Linford village Great Linford was one of the North Buckinghamshire villages incorporated into Milton Keynes at its designation in 1967. History The origin of the name Linford is not recorded. The first reference to Linford occurs in 944, when "King Edmund gave to his thegn Aelfheah, land at Linforda with liberty to leave it to whom he wished"; it appears in the Domesday Book as ''Linforda''. In the early sixteenth century, the rector of this parish Dr Richard Napier was widely known as a medical practitioner, astrologer and curer of souls. He was referred to by many in the upper classes, including the Earl of Sunderland who lived under his care for some time in 1629. Great Linford Manor was originally built on the hill where the South Pavilion now stands. It was the home of Sir Richard Napier from 1633 to 1676. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Holm
Loughton () is an ancient village and modern district in the civil parish of Loughton and Great Holm in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The village spreads between Watling Street and the modern A5 road, to the west of, and about 1 mile from, Central Milton Keynes. Historic Loughton The village name is an Old English language word, and means 'Luhha's estate'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Lochintone''.'Parishes : Loughton' , A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 395–401. Date accessed: 14 September 2010 |
Walnut Tree, Milton Keynes
Walton (historically) was a hamlet that is now a district and civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. For local government purposes, it is part of the Danesborough and Walton electoral ward. The historic hamlet is located about four miles south of Central Milton Keynes and just east of Simpson, mostly along Walton Road in the modern Walnut Tree district. The modern H9 Groveway grid road severs a few of its houses into Walton Hall and the V10 Brickhill Street separates the Manor Farm off into the Walton grid square. The Manor Farm has been redeveloped, first into a research centre for Hoechst and subsequently as the UK headquarters of MSD Animal Health. The village name is a common one in England, and is an Old English language word, meaning either 'village of the Britons' (''wale'' being a word meaning Briton) or 'walled village'. The village is first recorded (in the 12th century) as ''Wauton''. The manor house of the village, (Walton Hall) and its chapel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heelands
Bradwell is an ancient village and modern district in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It has also given its name to a modern civil parish that is part of the City of Milton Keynes. The village was adjacent to Bradwell Abbey, a Benedictine priory, founded in 1155 and dissolved in about 1540, but the abbey and its immediate environs were always a separate ecclesiastical parish. The village name is an Old English language word and means ''broad spring''. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Bradewelle''. There was an YHA youth hostel in the village (near the church and Bradwell Bury), at : the YHA closed it during the COVID-19 pandemic and terminated its lease in 2021. Civil Parish The parish of Bradwell consists of the Bradwell village grid square, along with Bradwell Abbey, Heelands, Rooksley, and Bradwell Common. The parish had a population of 9,657 according to the 2011 census. The parish is bounded by the railway line or the A5 to the we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haversham
Haversham is a village in the City of Milton Keynes unitary authority area, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated to the north of (and separated by the River Great Ouse from) the Milton Keynes urban area, near Wolverton and about north of Central Milton Keynes. With Little Linford, it forms the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Haversham-cum-Little Linford. The village name is an Old English word that means 'Haefer's homestead'. In the Domesday Book of 1086, when it belonged to the Peverell family, it was listed as ''Havresham''. The ancient manor house in the village, which was fortified in 1304, was largely burnt down, but parts of it still remain in a farm house just outside the main village. Haversham was once a village of farm-workers' dwellings. , only Hill Farm, Grange Farm and Crossroads Farm remain as active working farms. The village has two distinct settlements separated by farmland. The older part of the village contains the manor house. It lies at ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanslope
Hanslope is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about west northwest of Newport Pagnell, about north of Stony Stratford and north of Central Milton Keynes. The northern parish boundary is part of the county boundary with Northamptonshire. The West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Glasgow passes through the western part of the parish, just over west of the village. Toponymy The name of the village has evolved over the centuries. In the 11th century, it was variously spelt ''Hammescle'', ''Hanslepe'' or ''Anslepe''. In the 13th century, it was ''Hameslepe'' or '' Hamslape'', and the latter form continued in use into the 14th century. It was ''Hanslopp'' in the 15th century and ''Hanslap'' or ''Anslope'' in the 16th century. ''Anslap'', ''Anslapp'' and ''Hanslapp'' were used early in the 18th century and ''Hanslape'' was used in the 19th century. The toponym's etymology is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolverton And Greenleys
Wolverton and Greenleys is a civil parish with a town council in Milton Keynes, England. It is north-west of Central Milton Keynes, and according to the 2011 census had a population of 12,492. It includes Wolverton, Old Wolverton, Wolverton Mill, Greenleys and Stonebridge. ''Wolverton Online''. The parish is bounded to the north by the , to the east by the railway line, to the south by the Millers Way (H2) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glebe Farm, Milton Keynes
Glebe Farm is a district of south-east Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England, within the Wavendon civil parish. It was constructed to help the Milton Keynes urban area with its rapid increase in demand for housing. The site is part of the "Eastern Expansion Area" of Milton Keynes, identified in 2004 by the then government. The district is home to the city's first all-through school, Glebe Farm School, with space for 1,500 pupils. Location The district lies opposite the Magna Park distribution centre, on the other side of the A421, and west of the neighbouring district of Eagle Farm. It is on the eastern outskirts of Wavendon civil parish, just outside and overlooking the village itself. The A421 connects the district with the M1 motorway to the east via Junction 13 (roughly away), and the A5 and the rest of Milton Keynes to the west. The nearest railway station is which is approximately to the south of the district. The closest retail centre is the Kingston District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glebe Farm School
Glebe (; also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson's close(s))McGurk 1970, p. 17 is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest. The land may be owned by the church, or its profits may be reserved to the church. Medieval origins In the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian traditions, a glebe is land belonging to a benefice and so by default to its incumbent. In other words, "glebe is land (in addition to or including the parsonage house/rectory and grounds) which was assigned to support the priest".Coredon 2007, p. 140 The word ''glebe'' itself comes from Middle English, from the Old French (originally from la, gleba or , "clod, land, soil"). Glebe land can include strips in the open-field system or portions grouped together into a compact plot of land. In early times, tithes provided the main means of support for the parish clergy, but glebe land was either granted by any lord of the manor of the church's parish (sometime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tattenhoe
St. Giles's Church Tattenhoe and Tattenhoe Park are adjacent neighbourhoods of Milton Keynes, England, in the ancient ecclesiastic parish of Tattenhoe. They are located at the south-western edge of the city, next to Whaddon in Aylesbury Vale, not far from the ruins of Snelshall Priory. History The name is an Old English language word meaning "Tatta's hill-spur". The village was first recorded (in the 12th century) as 'Thateo'; the village has also been known as ''Tattenho'', ''Totenho'' (13th century); ''Tottynho'' (16th-17th century); ''Tattenhall'' (18th-19th century) The village was abandoned in the 16th century and had its own moated manor house and church (1540, perhaps 12th century). By the time redevelopment began, it consisted of just three farms and St. Giles's Church, but was recognised as a village (rather than a hamlet) because it had its own ecclesiastical parish. Sports facilities The districts have the Tattenhoe Sports Pavilion. The pavilion has legacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giffard Park
Great Linford is a historic village, district and wider civil parish in the northern part of Milton Keynes, England, between Wolverton and Newport Pagnell. Great Linford village Great Linford was one of the North Buckinghamshire villages incorporated into Milton Keynes at its designation in 1967. History The origin of the name Linford is not recorded. The first reference to Linford occurs in 944, when "King Edmund gave to his thegn Aelfheah, land at Linforda with liberty to leave it to whom he wished"; it appears in the Domesday Book as ''Linforda''. In the early sixteenth century, the rector of this parish Dr Richard Napier was widely known as a medical practitioner, astrologer and curer of souls. He was referred to by many in the upper classes, including the Earl of Sunderland who lived under his care for some time in 1629. Great Linford Manor was originally built on the hill where the South Pavilion now stands. It was the home of Sir Richard Napier from 1633 to 1676. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
