Simpson, Milton Keynes

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Simpson is a village and civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was one of the former villages of Buckinghamshire that was included in the New City in the 1960s, and is located south of the centre, just north of Fenny Stratford, near Walton.

The village name is an Old English language word, and means 'Sigewine's farm'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Siwinestone. The village is where the family name of Simpson is said to originate.

In the mid 19th century the village was described[1] as "in appearance, one of the most wretched of many miserable villages in the county". This was due to the author's approach to the village being blocked in the winter time by a ford 200 feet wide, and three feet deep. This ford was fixed in the 1860s when the road was raised by three and a half feet by the Warren family, lords of the manor.

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  1. ^ Sheahan, James Joseph, "History and Topography of Buckinghamshire", published in 1862


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


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