Hardmead
Hardmead | |
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![]() ![]() Hardmead Location within Buckinghamshire | |
Population | 70 (Mid-2010 pop est)[1] |
OS grid reference | SP935476 |
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Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NEWPORT PAGNELL |
Postcode district | MK16 |
Dialling code | 01234 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Hardmead is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[2] It is in the north of the Borough, about seven miles west of Bedford, five miles north east of Newport Pagnell. The village is close to the A422 road, on a very small road linking that to nearby Newton Blossomville. It is in the civil parish of Astwood.
The village name is Old English in origin, and means 'Heoruwulf's meadow'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was called Herulfmede.[3] The village is very small with a population of around 100 people. The nearest pub is located one mile away in Astwood and the nearest shop is about four miles distant.
The former church of St Mary's Hardmead is Grade I listed and parts date from the 12th century.[3] It has been redundant since the 1980s and is now in the care of the charity Friends of Friendless Churches. There are monuments in the church to the Catesby family and to the explorer .[4]
References[]
- ^ "Civil Parish population estimates in England and Wales, mid-2010". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Contact your Parish, Town or Community Council". Milton Keynes Council. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ a b William Page, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Hardmead". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 4. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. pp. 362–366.
- ^ "St Mary's Hardmead". Friends of Friendless Churches. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011.
External links[]
Media related to Hardmead at Wikimedia Commons
- Civil parishes in Milton Keynes Borough
- Villages in Buckinghamshire
- Areas of Milton Keynes
- Buckinghamshire geography stubs