| Little Horwood | |
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 St Nicholas' parish church | |
  Little Horwood Location withinBuckinghamshire | |
| Population | 434 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SP7930 |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MILTON KEYNES |
| Postcode district | MK17 |
| Dialling code | 01296 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Little Horwood Parish Council |
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Little Horwood is a village andcivil parish inBuckinghamshire, England, within theBuckinghamshire Councilunitary authority area. The village is about four miles east-south-east ofBuckingham and two miles north-east ofWinslow.
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The villagetoponym Horwood derives from theOld English for "dirty or muddy wood". TheAnglo-Saxon Chronicle of 792 records the village asHorwudu.
TheChurch of England parish church ofSaint Nicholas has aPerpendicular Gothicbelltower built of large blocks ofashlar. The remainder of the church externally dates from the restoration of 1889 byJames Piers St Aubyn. The interior remains relatively unaltered, retaining early 16th-century wall paintings depicting theseven deadly sins, aJacobeanpulpit and aDecorated Gothicchancel arch. The Tower has aring of five bells, with a tenor of 9cwt 2qtrs 22lbs, tuned to the note of G.
Themanor of Little Horwood anciently belonged to theabbot andconvent ofSt Albans, but was seized bythe Crown with theDissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-16th century. It was later sold toGeorge Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who remodelled amanor house that has since been demolished.
One mile south-east of the village isHorwood House. The Grade II listed Little Horwood Manor is a comparatively modern house, designed byA. S. G. Butler in 1938 for the industrialist George Gee.[4]
Located between the village and nearbyGreat Horwood isRAF Little Horwood, aWorld War II airfield was built in 1940,[5] and was operational from 1942 to 1946.
Little Horwood has an occasional daytime, weekday bus link toMilton Keynes.[6] The nearest railway station is atMilton Keynes Central (8½ miles/14 km).
