Filgrave

Filgrave

Filgrave is a hamlet in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[1] [2] It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Newport Pagnell and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Central Milton Keynes.

The hamlet name is an Old English language word, and means 'Fygla's grove'.[3] In manorial rolls of 1241 it was listed as Filegrave.

Civil parish

Together with its neighbouring village, it forms the civil parish of Tyringham and Filgrave.

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 152 Northampton & Milton Keynes (Buckingham & Daventry) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231715.
  2. ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  3. ^ Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780199609086.

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