Lavendon
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| Lavendon | |
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 Church Corner and Northampton Road (A428) | |
  Lavendon Location within Buckinghamshire | |
 Interactive map of Lavendon | |
| Population | 1,434 (2021 census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SP915535 |
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| District | |
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| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | OLNEY |
| Postcode district | MK46 |
| Dialling code | 01234 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
Lavendon is a village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[2] It is the northernmost village in the Milton Keynes UA and South East England,[a] near Olney, about 8 miles (13 km) WNW of Bedford and 9 miles (14 km) NNE of Central Milton Keynes.
Nearby places are Warrington, and Cold Brayfield in the Milton Keynes UA, and Harrold and Carlton over the border in Bedfordshire.
The village name is derived from a personal name and a place-name element from the Old English language (Lafan + denu), and means 'Lafa's valley'.[3] In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Lavendene and Lawendene.[4]
The village was once the location of a Lavendon Abbey, a Premonstratensian abbey, founded between 1155 and 1158 by John de Bidun. The abbey was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.[5] It stood at what is now Abbey Farm (formerly Lavendon Grange): this site is a scheduled monument.[6] At Castle Farm are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle created in the twelfth century by de Bidun family as the headquarters of their barony of Lavendon.[7][8] The castle was last recorded in 1232. It too is a scheduled monument.[9] A third scheduled monument nearby, 'The Bury' (a ringwork), may be a precursor to the castle.[10] The site of Uphoe Manor is yet another scheduled monument.[11]
The Earl of Gainsborough was patron of the parish church.[12]
The village is on the route of the 1936 Jarrow March, there is a small plaque on the churchyard wall to commemorate this.
