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Little Linford
Little Linford is located in Milton Keynes
Little Linford
Little Linford
Little Linford is located in Buckinghamshire
Little Linford
Little Linford
Location within Buckinghamshire
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Ceremonial county
Region
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMILTON KEYNES
Postcode districtMK19
Dialling code01908
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52°05′28″N 0°46′19″W / 52.091°N 0.772°W / 52.091; -0.772

Little Linford is a village in the civil parish of Haversham-cum-Little Linford,[1] in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Located near the M1 motorway, the village is about 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Newport Pagnell and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Central Milton Keynes. The village is separated from its neighbour and namesake Great Linford (and the rest of the Milton Keynes urban area) by the floodplain of the River Great Ouse.

'Linford' is an Old English word that means 'ford where maple trees grow'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Linforde.[2]

Little Linford was initially a hamlet in the manor of Linford. The manor straddled the Great Ouse. The larger part of the manor south of the river became the parish of Great Linford. The part of the manor north of the river became known as Little Linford, and formed part of the ancient parish of Newport Pagnell. A chapel of ease dedicated to St Leonard and St Andrew was built to serve Little Linford, with the oldest part of the current building dating back to the 13th century.[3] Little Linford was subsequently made a separate parish from Newport Pagnell in 1735.[4]

In 1934, the parish of Little Linford was merged with the neighbouring parish of Haversham to become a new civil parish called Haversham-cum-Little Linford.[5] At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Little Linford had a population of 45.[6]

Little Linford Wood

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Little Linford Wood is owned by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Today it is one of the best habitats for dormice, which were transferred to Little Linford Wood from Kent when the Channel Tunnel rail link was being constructed.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Contact your parish or town council". Milton Keynes Council. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  2. ^ William Page, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Little Linford". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol. 4. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. pp. 392–395.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Leonard and St Andrew (Grade II*) (1212140)". National Heritage List for England.
  4. ^ Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume I, Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. 37. ISBN 0901050679.
  5. ^ "Relationships and changes Little Linford CP/Ch through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Population statistics Little Linford CP/Ch through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Little Linford Wood". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
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