Gayhurst

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Gayhurst is a village in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England. Prior the foundation of the Borough in 1995 it was in Buckinghamshire. It is about two and a half miles NNW of Newport Pagnell.

The village name is an Old English language word meaning 'wooded hill where goats are kept'. In the Domesday Book in 1086 it was recorded as Gateherst. At that time the manor was owned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux.

Gayhurst had an outstation from the Bletchley Park codebreaking establishment, where some of the Bombes used to decode German Enigma messages in World War Two were housed.

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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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Coordinates: 52°06′43″N, 0°45′39″W