Shenley Brook End is a
village, district and wider
civil parish in
Milton Keynes
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,
Buckinghamshire
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, England.
Together with its neighbouring districts of
Shenley Church End, Shenley Wood and Shenley Lodge, the districts are collectively known as "The Shenleys".
Today, the historic village is the core of the new district that bears its name. The district is bounded by V2 Tattenhoe Street, V3 Fulmer Street, H6 Childs Way and H7 Chaffron Way.
The mathematician and logician
Alan Turing was billeted here during his time at
Bletchley Park.
History
The village name 'Shenley' is an
Old English language word meaning 'bright clearing'. In the
Domesday Book of 1086 the area was collectively known as ''Senelai''.
The distinction between the Brook End and the Church End happened in the 12th century when a new
manor house was constructed in Shenley Brook End by the Mansell family. However, by 1426 the two
manors were owned by the same person and the distinction between the two places was in name only.
Education
It has primary school, Long Meadow, and a secondary school,
Shenley Brook End School
Shenley Brook End School is a modern secondary academy school on the western flank of Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) in the civil parish of Shenley Brook End. The school opened in September 1997 with a small student body and currently has ove ...
, in 2007 one of the best performing schools in Milton Keynes.
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Civil parish
The parish includes Shenley Lodge
Shenley Brook End is a village, district and wider civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Together with its neighbouring districts of Shenley Church End, Shenley Wood and Shenley Lodge, the districts are collectively known as " ...
, Furzton, Shenley Brook End, Emerson Valley, Westcroft, Tattenhoe (including Kingsmead, Howe Park Wood and Snelshall East) and Tattenhoe Park (including Snelshall West). The parish is bounded to the north-east by V4 Watling Street, to the north-west by H6 Childs Way, to the south-west by the City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
boundary with the rest of Buckinghamshire (at Whaddon Whaddon may refer to several places in England:
*Whaddon, Buckinghamshire
*Whaddon, Cambridgeshire
*Whaddon, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
* Whaddon, Stroud, in Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon, Gloucestershire
*Whaddon, Wiltshire, hamlet near Trowbridge
* Wh ...
) and to the south-east by H8/ A421 Standing Way.
Emerson Valley
Emerson Valley is primarily a housing district but is noted for being the home of Milton Keynes Rugby Football Club. It is also the name of an electoral ward
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to t ...
for Milton Keynes City Council.
Furzton
Furzton is primarily a housing district with a small office development but half the district is taken up by Furzton Lake
Furzton is a district in south-west Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and in the civil parish of Shenley Brook End The man-made Furzton Lake is a balancing lake that covers approximately half of the district.
History
The housing in South ...
(a balancing lake) and the flood plain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...
of Loughton Brook.
Shenley Lodge
Shenley Lodge is a residential district, noted for the Energy World development of exemplar high-energy-efficiency houses in 1986.
Snelshall and Kingsmead
These two grid squares are in the far south-west of Milton Keynes, abutting the boundary with Whaddon parish. They are primarily residential, with an industrial area south of the brook. The notable feature of the district is the site of the ruined Snelshall Priory
Snelshall Priory was a Benedictine priory in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in the United Kingdom, built around 1200.
The priory was founded after Sybil d'Aungerville granted land at Tattenhoe to Lavendon Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery ...
, a ruined Benedictine priory founded in about 1200.
Tattenhoe and Tattenhoe Park
These districts share the Tattenhoe grid square and are primarily residential.
Westcroft
A large fraction of Westcroft is taken by the District Centre of the same name. It is a large retail development that serves the west side of Milton Keynes. The rest of the district is residential.
Shenley Brook
The brook rises near the site of Snelshall Priory, flows through Furzton where it is joined by a tributary from Emerson Valley, then goes on to become the "tear-drop lakes" in Loughton and flows into the river Great Ouse
The River Great Ouse () is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse". From Syresham in Northamptonshire, the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the Wa ...
at New Bradwell.
References
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Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire
Areas of Milton Keynes
Villages in Buckinghamshire