Moulsoe is a village and

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in the

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of the

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, England. It is on the border with

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, and just east of the M1, situated about ESE of

Newport Pagnell Newport Pagnell is a town and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The Office for National Statistics records Newport Pagnell as part of the Milton Keynes urban area. It is separated from the rest of the urban ...

, and about NNE of Central Milton Keynes. The main road through the village is the Newport Road coming from the west, changing to the Cranfield Road going east at a bend by the church. The village name is an

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word which means 'Mul's hill spur'. In the

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of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Moleshou''.moulsoe.net/history.htm
/ref> At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 318, down slightly from 330 at the 2001 census. , the parish is mainly rural but a large area just west of the village has been identified for future expansion of Milton Keynes. There are several old thatched dwellings. Other buildings are of brick apart from some concrete council houses to the west and the church which is of stone, and dates from the 12th century.
St Mary's There is an inn, the Carrington Arms, and a village hall, the Millennium Hall.www.milton-keynes.gov.uk
Moulsoe Millennium Hall

Caldecote

Caldecote is a tiny hamlet in the parish, notable because of it being mentioned in

Domesday Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

Gallery

File:Thatched Moulsoe12.JPG, Yew Tree Cottage, Newport Road File:Carrington Arms Moulsoe.jpg, The Carrington Arms, Cranfield Road File:St Mary's Moulsoe.JPG, St Mary's church, view from Newport Road

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Villages in Buckinghamshire Areas of Milton Keynes Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire {{Buckinghamshire-geo-stub