Lillingstone Dayrell

Lillingstone Dayrell
St Nicholas Church, Lillingstone Dayrell, 2009
Lillingstone Dayrell is located in Buckinghamshire
Lillingstone Dayrell
Lillingstone Dayrell
Location within Buckinghamshire
Population103 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSP705395
Civil parish
  • Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBUCKINGHAM
Postcode districtMK18
Dialling code01280
PoliceThames Valley
FireBuckinghamshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Buckinghamshire
52°02′58″N 0°58′43″W / 52.0494°N 0.9787°W / 52.0494; -0.9787

Lillingstone Dayrell is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about three and a half miles north of Buckingham, eight miles west of Milton Keynes and five miles south of Towcester.

The village name 'Lillingstone' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Lytel's boundary stone', referring to the proximity of both places to the border with Northamptonshire. In the Domesday Book of 1086, both settlements were recorded jointly as Lillingestan though already at that time there were two manors owned respectively by the Dayrell and Lovell families. The suffix 'Dayrell' (as 'Dayerell') was first recorded in the fourteenth century. The Dayrell family were Lords of the Manor from the fourteenth century until the 1880s.[2]

  1. ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census Accessed 3 February 2013
  2. ^ 'Parishes : Lillingstone Dayrell' – Victoria History of the Counties of England, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 187-191. Date accessed: 14 January 2012