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Lillingstone Dayrell With Luffield Abbey
Lillingstone may refer to: People *Luke Lillingstone (1653–1713), British Army general Places *Lillingstone Dayrell Lillingstone Dayrell is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in Aylesbury Vale, about three and a half miles north of Buckingham, eight miles west of Milton Keynes and five miles south of Towcester. Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Ab ..., village in Buckinghamshire, England * Lillingstone Lovell, village in Buckinghamshire, England See also * Lillingston, a surname {{disambig, geo, surname ...
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Luke Lillingstone
Luke Lillingstone or Lillingston (1653–1713) was a British Army general who accompanied William of Orange to England in 1688. Early life Lillingstone's surname is variably spelled Lillingstone, Lillingston and Lillingstein. He was born to Colonel Henry Lillingstone, of German extraction from Lilienstein. His maternal uncle, Colonel Thomas Dolman, served with his father in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. Lillingstone himself was commissioned as an officer in the Brigade in 1673 and in 1688 he accompanied William of Orange to England. Command After fighting against Jacobite forces in Ireland, Lillingstone received his first command in 1692, when he took over the colonelcy of Jonathan Foulkes's Regiment on the latter's death. On assuming command the regiment became Luke Lillingstone's Regiment of Foot, and was to be the first of three regiments to bear this title. Lillingstone's regiment was disbanded in 1694, but was reraised the same year for service in the West Indies. This se ...
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Lillingstone Dayrell
Lillingstone Dayrell is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in Aylesbury Vale, about three and a half miles north of Buckingham, eight miles west of Milton Keynes and five miles south of Towcester. Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey and the neighbouring hamlet of Lillingstone Lovell are separate civil parishes within Aylesbury Vale district. The village name 'Lillingstone' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Lytel's boundary stone', referring to the proximity of both places to the border with Northamptonshire. In the Domesday Book of 1086, both settlements were recorded jointly as ''Lillingestan'' though already at that time there were two manors owned respectively by the Dayrell and Lovell families. The suffix 'Dayrell' (as 'Dayerell') was first recorded in the fourteenth century. The Dayrell family were Lords of the Manor from the fourteenth century until the 1880s. Notable buildings The parish church of Lillingstone Dayrell is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra ...
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Lillingstone Lovell
Lillingstone Lovell is a village and civil parish in north Buckinghamshire, England. It is located around north of Buckingham and west of Milton Keynes, and around south of Towcester in the neighbouring county of Northamptonshire. Silverstone Circuit is located just over north-west of Lillingstone Lovell. The parish adjoins that of Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey. The toponym "Lillingstone" is derived from the Old English for "Lytel's boundary stone", referring to the proximity of both places to the Northamptonshire boundary. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 both settlements were recorded jointly as ''Lillingestan'', though at that time there were already two manors owned respectively by the Dayrell and Lovell families. During the 13th century Lillingstone Lovell was known as ''Lillingstone Magna'' while Lillingstone Dayrell was recorded as ''Lillingstone Parva''; this is believed to refer more to administrative ascendancy rather than territorial size. T ...
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