Everything about Great Linford totally explained
Great Linford is an historic
village, district and
civil parish in the northern of part of
Milton Keynes,
England, between
Wolverton and
Newport Pagnell.
Great Linford village
Anciently the village was in
historic Buckinghamshire and was incorporated into Milton Keynes at the designation of the
new city in
1967.
Written as Great Linford to distinguish it from the even tinier
Little Linford, the village is another on the
Grand Union Canal. The name Linford is thought to derive from the crossing point over the
River Ouse which now separates Great Linford from Little Linford to the north, where there were
linden trees. It appears in the
Domesday Book as
Linforde. Today, the outer buildings of the seventeenth-century
Linford Manor form an Arts Centre, and the house itself is a prestigious recording studio.
In the early
Seventeenth century, the rector of this
parish Dr Richard Napier was widely known as a medical practitioner,
astrologer and curer of souls. He was referred to by many in the
upper classes, including the
Earl of Sunderland who lived under his care for some time.
Great Linford was also home to Sir
William Pritchard in the later part of that century, who was president of
St Bartholomew's Hospital in
London. He founded
almshouses in Great Linford, which are still there today.
The parish church is dedicated to
Saint Andrew and dates from 1215.
Great Linford has two pubs, one called the Nags Head, on the high street, and one called The Black Horse on the edge of Great Linford, next to the
Grand Union canal.
Civil parish
In addition to Great Linford district itself (with the historic village at its core), the civil parish also includes the districts of
Giffard Park,
Blakelands,
Neath Hill,
Pennyland,
Tongwell,
Conniburrow,
Downs Barn and
Downhead Park.
The parish is bounded to the north by Newport Road, to the west by the
B4034/V8 Marlborough Street (as far as H4 Dansteed Way), then along Dansteed Way as far as V7 Saxon Street, south along Saxon Street as far as the
A509/H5 Portway, then east along Portway to V10 Brickhill Street, then north along Brickhill Street to Dansteed Way again, then east again along Dansteed Way to the
M1, then north along the motorway until it reaches Newport Road again. The Grand Union Canal bisects the parish.
The parish increased in population from 263 in the 1971 census to 11,882 in the 1981 census, an increase of some 4,400%.
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Little Linford is in the adjoining parish of
Haversham-cum-
Little Linford.
Linford Wood is in the adjoining
Stantonbury parish.
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