Gayhurst

Gayhurst
Gayhurst
	Gayhurst Location within Buckinghamshire
Population	128 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SP849466
Civil parish	Gayhurst;
Unitary authority	Borough of Milton Keynes;
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWPORT PAGNELL
Postcode district	MK16
Dialling code	01908
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Milton Keynes North;

Gayhurst is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in England.[2] 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; later names include Goathurst.[3] At that time the manor was owned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux.[3]

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.

In 1582, Queen Elizabeth I made a grant of Gayhurst Manor "in the event of its reversion to the Crown" to Sir Francis Drake,[3] but there is no record that he ever received it. The house once belonged to Sir Everard Digby (1578–1606), one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.[3]

The church of St Peter was built in the classical style in 1728 to replace a medieval church; the designer is unknown.[4]

References

UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Gayhurst (E04001254)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
"Contact your Parish, Town or Community Council". Milton Keynes Council. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
William Paige, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Gayhurst". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 4. Constable & Co. Ltd. pp. 343–347.
Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South. London: Collins; p. 127

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[1] UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Gayhurst (E04001254)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 November 2019.

[BMK-parishes-2] "Contact your Parish, Town or Community Council". Milton Keynes Council. Retrieved 10 October 2020.

[VCH-3] William Paige, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Gayhurst". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 4. Constable & Co. Ltd. pp. 343–347.

[4] Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South. London: Collins; p. 127