| Lillingstone Dayrell | |
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St Nicholas Church, Lillingstone Dayrell, 2009 | |
Location withinBuckinghamshire | |
| Population | 100 (Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey parish, 2021)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SP705395 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BUCKINGHAM |
| Postcode district | MK18 |
| Dialling code | 01280 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
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Lillingstone Dayrell is a village in thecivil parish ofLillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey, inBuckinghamshire, England. It is about three and a half miles north ofBuckingham, eight miles west ofMilton Keynes and five miles south ofTowcester. At the2021 census the population of the civil parish was 100.
The village name 'Lillingstone' isAnglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Lytel's boundary stone', referring to the proximity of both places to the border withNorthamptonshire. In theDomesday Book of 1086, both settlements were recorded jointly asLillingestan though already at that time there were twomanors owned respectively by the Dayrell and Lovell families. The suffix 'Dayrell' (as 'Dayerell') was first recorded in the fourteenth century. The Dayrell family were Lords of the Manor from the fourteenth century until the 1880s.[3]
Lillingstone Dayrell was anancient parish. In 2001 the parish absorbed the area of the neighbouring parish ofLuffield Abbey, which was abolished. The enlarged parish was renamed Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey at the same time.[4][5] At the 1971 census (the penultimate one before the merger with Luffield Abbey and rename), Lillingstone Dayrell had a population of 141.[6]
Theparish church of Lillingstone Dayrell is dedicated toSt Nicholas of Myra.
Lillingstone House is the ancient seat of the Dayrell family.
In 1882, the banker Abraham John Robarts, of Robarts, Lubbock & Co., then the tenant of Lillingstone House, built Tile House in the village for himself, designed byEwan Christian. This is described byNikolaus Pevsner as “Neo-Elizabethan, big and forbidding with groups of huge chimneys.”[7]
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