Ravenstone | |
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All Saints' parish church | |
Location within
Buckinghamshire | |
Population | 209 ( 2011 Census) [1] |
OS grid reference | SP850508 |
• London | 60 miles (97 km) |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Olney |
Postcode district | MK46 |
Dialling code | 01908 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Ravenstone is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. [2] The village is about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Olney, and 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Newport Pagnell and about 10 miles (16 km) from Central Milton Keynes. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 209. [1]
The toponym is derived from the Old English for "Hrafn's farm". [3]
In 1255 a priory of Augustinian canons was founded in Ravenstone by King Henry III. It was dissolved in 1525 and its lands granted to Cardinal Wolsey; [4] and then in 1544 the Crown seized all of Wolsey's estates including Ravenstone Priory. After changing hands privately a number of occasions, the building was eventually demolished, and today nothing remains standing.
The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of All Saints are 11th-century. The church includes the tomb of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham. He had the neighbouring almshouses built, [4] originally six for men and six for women, now combined into six cottages. [5] The original inhabitants had to be single and members of the Church of England, and received a small pension, firewood, and a new cloak every Christmas. [6]
The parish has one scheduled monument (Ravenstone Priory), [7] one grade I listed building (the Church of All Saints) [8] and a further 29 buildings or structured listed at. grade II. [9]
The only communal facility in Ravenstone is the village hall. A post office and The Wheatsheaf pub closed in the early 1990s.
Media related to Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire at Wikimedia Commons
Ravenstone | |
---|---|
All Saints' parish church | |
Location within
Buckinghamshire | |
Population | 209 ( 2011 Census) [1] |
OS grid reference | SP850508 |
• London | 60 miles (97 km) |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Olney |
Postcode district | MK46 |
Dialling code | 01908 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Ravenstone is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. [2] The village is about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Olney, and 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Newport Pagnell and about 10 miles (16 km) from Central Milton Keynes. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 209. [1]
The toponym is derived from the Old English for "Hrafn's farm". [3]
In 1255 a priory of Augustinian canons was founded in Ravenstone by King Henry III. It was dissolved in 1525 and its lands granted to Cardinal Wolsey; [4] and then in 1544 the Crown seized all of Wolsey's estates including Ravenstone Priory. After changing hands privately a number of occasions, the building was eventually demolished, and today nothing remains standing.
The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of All Saints are 11th-century. The church includes the tomb of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham. He had the neighbouring almshouses built, [4] originally six for men and six for women, now combined into six cottages. [5] The original inhabitants had to be single and members of the Church of England, and received a small pension, firewood, and a new cloak every Christmas. [6]
The parish has one scheduled monument (Ravenstone Priory), [7] one grade I listed building (the Church of All Saints) [8] and a further 29 buildings or structured listed at. grade II. [9]
The only communal facility in Ravenstone is the village hall. A post office and The Wheatsheaf pub closed in the early 1990s.
Media related to Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire at Wikimedia Commons