Little Brickhill
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Little Brickhill is a village in the Borough of Milton Keynes and ceremonial Buckinghamshire, England. It is located just outside and overlooking Milton Keynes itself, two and a half miles west of Woburn in Bedfordshire.
The village name 'Brickhill' is a compound of Brythonic and Old English words that have the same meaning: a common occurrence in this part of the country. The Brythonic word 'breg' means 'hill', as does the Old English word 'hyll'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was referred to as Brichelle.
The village has, for a long time, gathered most of its income from the Roman road Watling Street that passes through the parish from north-west to south-east, and anciently from a market that was established in the village in 1228. At one time the county Assize Courts were held in Little Brickhill, making it adversely larger than nearby Great Brickhill. The last time the assizes were heard here was in 1638. Between 1561 and 1620 the names of a number of executed criminals appear in the burial register of the village.
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| Civil parishes in the borough of Milton Keynes |
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Astwood | Bletchley and Fenny Stratford | Bow Brickhill | Bradwell | Bradwell Abbey | Broughton | Calverton | Campbell Park | Castlethorpe | Central Milton Keynes | Chicheley | Clifton Reynes | Cold Brayfield | Emberton | Gayhurst | Great Linford | Hanslope | Hardmead | Haversham cum Little Linford | Kents Hill, Monkston and Brinklow | Lathbury | Lavendon | Little Brickhill | Loughton | Milton Keynes (Middleton) | Moulsoe | New Bradwell | Newport Pagnell | Newton Blossomville | North Crawley | Olney | Ravenstone | Shenley Brook End | Shenley Church End | Sherington | Simpson | Stantonbury | Stoke Goldington | Stony Stratford | Tyringham and Filgrave | Walton | Warrington | Wavendon | West Bletchley | Weston Underwood | Woburn Sands | Wolverton and Greenleys | Woughton |
