Hardmead
| Hardmead | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 Hardmead Rectory | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP935476 |
| Location: | 52°7’4"N, -0°38’11"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 70 (Mid-2010 (est.)[1]) |
| Post town: | Newpotr Pagnell |
| Postcode: | MK16 |
| Dialling code: | 01908 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Milton Keynes |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Milton Keynes North |
Hardmead is a small village and parish in the Newport Hundred of Buckinghamshire, about seven miles west of Bedford, and 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.
The village name is Old English in origin, and means 'Heoruwulf's meadow'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was called Herulfmede. 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 dates from the 13th century. 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 Robert Shedden.[2]
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hardmead) |
- ↑ "Civil Parish population estimates in England and Wales, mid-2010". Office for National Statistics. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/what-we-do/publication-scheme/published-ad-hoc-data/population/december-2012/mid-2010-civil-parish-syoa-population-estimates-for-england-and-wales.xls. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
- ↑ "St Mary's Hardmead". Friends of Friendless Churches. Archived from the original on 2011-07-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20110701080723/http://www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/CMSMS/index.php?page=hardmead.
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