Towns & cities · West Midlands
Lavendon
Lavendon — village in Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Lavendon is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Recent population estimates put it at around 1,299 people. Address: MK46. Wikidata describes it as: "village in Buckinghamshire, England, UK". Coordinates: 52.1720°, -0.6630°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Lavendon is a village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the northernmost village in the Milton Keynes UA and South East England, 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.
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Background
History
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'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Lavendene and Lawendene. 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. It stood at what is now Abbey Farm (formerly Lavendon Grange): this site is a scheduled monument. 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. The…
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- Coordinates
- 52.1720, -0.6630
- District
- Milton Keynes
- Parish
- Lavendon
- Postcode
- MK46
- Parliamentary constituency
- Milton Keynes North
- Population
- 1,299
- Official site
- www.historicengland.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q1790266 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Lavendon (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: The Church Corner in Lavendon - geograph.org.uk - 419507.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lavendon?
- Lavendon is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode MK46), in the parish of Lavendon.
- Is Lavendon free to visit?
- Yes, Lavendon is free to enter.
- How do I get to Lavendon?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode MK46. It sits within the Milton Keynes North parliamentary constituency.