Cold Brayfield

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Cold Brayfield is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about three miles east of Olney, on the Bedfordshire border. Nearby places are Lavendon and Turvey (over the bridge on the Bedfordshire side of the River Great Ouse).

The village name is from both modern and Old English. The affix 'Cold' refers to the village's bleak location on the banks of the River Great Ouse. The last part 'Brayfield' means 'open land by higher ground' and was referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 967 as Bragenfelda.

Anciently the manor of Brayfield belonged to the Blossomville family of nearby Newton Blossomville.

Civil parishes in the borough of Milton Keynes

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

	River Great Ouse	edit
Administrative areas: Northamptonshire | Buckinghamshire | Bedfordshire | Cambridgeshire | Norfolk Flows into: The Wash Towns (upstream to downstream): Brackley | Buckingham | Old Stratford Milton Keynes (Stony Stratford, Wolverton, New Bradwell, Stantonbury, Great Linford) | Newport Pagnell | Olney | Kempston | Bedford | St Neots | Godmanchester | Huntingdon | St Ives | Ely | Littleport | Downham Market | King's Lynn Major tributaries (upstream to downstream by confluence): River Ouzel (or Lovat) | River Ivel River Kym | Old Bedford River | New Bedford River | River Cam | River Lark | River Little Ouse | River Wissey Major bridges (upstream to downstream): Harrold bridge | A428 Turvey bridge | A428 Bromham bypass A6 Bedford Town Bridge | A421 Bedford bypass | Great Barford Bridge A428 Bridge St Neots | St Neots Town Bridge | Godmanchester Chinese Bridge A14 bridge, River Great Ouse | Huntingdon Old Bridge | St Ives Bridge
Longest UK rivers: 1. Severn 2. Thames 3. Trent 4. Great Ouse 5. Wye 6. Tay 7. Spey 8. Nene 9. Clyde 10. Tweed 11. Eden 12. Dee

Coordinates: 52°09′N, 0°38′W