Bow Brickhill

Bow Brickhill
Bow Brickhill is located in Milton Keynes
Bow Brickhill
Bow Brickhill
Bow Brickhill is located in Buckinghamshire
Bow Brickhill
Bow Brickhill
Location within Buckinghamshire
Population562 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSP9034
Civil parish
  • Bow Brickhill
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMilton Keynes
Postcode districtMK17
Dialling code01908
PoliceThames Valley
FireBuckinghamshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Buckinghamshire

52°00′04″N 0°40′59″W / 52.001°N 0.683°W / 52.001; -0.683

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Bow Brickhill is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[2] It is bounded to the north, west and east by the Milton Keynes urban area, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Fenny Stratford, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Woburn Sands and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Central Milton Keynes.[a]

The village name is a combination of Brythonic and Old English words for 'hill' (Brythonic: breg, Anglo Saxon hyll). The prefix 'Bow' comes from an Anglo Saxon personal name, Bolla.[3] The various names of the village given in historic records were Brichelle (11th century); Brichull (12th century); Bolle Brichulle, Bellebrikhulle (13th century),[4][5] and Bolbryghyll (15th century, 1418).[6]

  1. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Bow Brickhill (E04012177)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Parishes in Milton Keynes". Milton Keynes Council. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Key to English place names: Bow Brickhill". Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 13 April 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  4. ^ William Page, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Bow Brickhill". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol. 4. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. pp. 289–293.
  5. ^ "CP 40/541 (third entry: William Cheval, as defendant)". Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas. National Archives. 1396.
  6. ^ "CP 40/629 (5th entry, home of William Chevall, the first defendant, in a plea of debt)". Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas (in Latin). National Archives. 1418.


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