Shenley Brook End is a

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, district and wider

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in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Together with its neighbouring districts of

Shenley Church End Shenley Church End is a village, district and wider civil parish in Milton Keynes England. Together with its neighbouring districts of Shenley Brook End, Shenley Wood and Shenley Lodge, the districts are collectively known as "The Shenleys". ...

, 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

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was billeted here during his time at

Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes ( Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years followin ...

History

The village name 'Shenley' is an

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word meaning 'bright clearing'. In the

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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

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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, in 2007 one of the best performing schools in Milton Keynes.BBC NEWS , Education , League Tables , Secondary schools in Milton Keynes
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Civil parish

The parish includes Shenley Lodge,

Furzton 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 Sout ...

, Shenley Brook End, Emerson Valley,

Westcroft Westcroft is a district in the western part of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the civil parish of Shenley Brook End. Westcroft District Centre is a large retail development that serves this side of Milton Keynes ( Tattenhoe, Emer ...

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 ...

(including Kingsmead, Howe Park Wood and Snelshall East) and Tattenhoe Park (including Snelshall West). The parish is bounded to the north-east by V4

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, to the north-west by H6 Childs Way, to the south-west by the

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boundary with the rest of Buckinghamshire (at Whaddon) and to the south-east by H8/

A421 The A421 is an important road for east/west journeys across south central England. Together with the A428 road, A428, the A43 road, A43 and A34 road (England), A34, it forms the route from Cambridge through Milton Keynes to Oxford. The sectio ...

Standing Way.

Emerson Valley

Emerson Valley is primarily a housing district but is noted for being the home of

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. It is also the name of an electoral ward for

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Furzton

Furzton is primarily a housing district with a small office development but half the district is taken up by Furzton Lake (a

balancing lake A balancing lake (also flood basin or Sustainable urban drainage scheme) is a term used in the U.K. describing an element of an urban drainage system used to control flooding by temporarily storing flood waters. The term balancing pond is also ...

) and the flood plain of Loughton Brook.

Shenley Lodge

Shenley Lodge is a residential district, noted for the

Energy World Energy World was a demonstration project of 51 low-energy houses constructed in the Shenley Lodge area of Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. The project was promoted by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation and culminated in a public exhibition ...

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 o ...

, a ruined

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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 Loughton () is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex. Part of the metropolitan and urban area of London, the town borders Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill, and is northeast of Chari ...

and flows into the river Great Ouse at

New Bradwell New Bradwell is (mainly) an Edwardian era village, modern district and civil parish in north-west Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Together with Wolverton (on the other side of the West Coast Main Line), it was built primarily to hous ...

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