Lavendon

Lavendon
Lavendon
Lavendon shown within Buckinghamshire
Population	1,303 (2011 Census including Warrington, Bucks)
OS grid reference	SP915535
Civil parish	Lavendon
Unitary authority	Milton Keynes
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	OLNEY
Postcode district	MK46
Dialling code	01234
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Milton Keynes North
List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 52°10′19″N 0°39′47″W / 52.172°N 0.663°W / 52.172; -0.663Coordinates: 52°10′19″N 0°39′47″W / 52.172°N 0.663°W / 52.172; -0.663

Lavendon is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes and ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is the northernmost village in the Borough, near Olney, eight miles WNW of Bedford, eight miles NNE of Newport Pagnell.

Nearby places are Warrington, and Cold Brayfield in Milton Keynes Borough, 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'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Lavendene and Lawendene.

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 castle was last recorded in 1232.

The village was once the location of 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 Grange Farm.

The village is on the route of the 1936 Jarrow March, there is a small plaque on the churchyard wall to commemorate this.

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