Tyringham

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Tyringham
Buckinghamshire
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St Peter's, Tyringham
Location
Grid reference: SP859469
Location: 52°6’50"N, 0°44’42"W
Data
Population: 250  (2011[1])
Post town: Newport Pagnell
Postcode: MK16
Dialling code: 01908
Local Government
Council: Milton Keynes
Parliamentary
constituency:
Milton Keynes North

Tyringham is a village in the Newport Hundred of Buckinghamshire, located about a mile and a half north of Newport Pagnell.

The village name is an Old-English-language word, and means 'Tir's home'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Telingham.

There is a theory that the name Tyringham refers to a settlement of Thuringii Germans coming with the Anglo-Saxons in the Dark Ages.[2]

Civil Parish

The parish of "Tyringham with Filgrave" (or "Tyringham cum Filgrave") was first created in 1639[3] by the union of two parishes.

The civil parish is called Tyringham and Filgrave, consisting of these two villages and their surrounding area. At the 2001 census, the population of the parish was 190[4]

Historically, Tyringham on its own once contained only two houses, but was a village in its own right because it was an ecclesiastic parish.

References

  1. Neighbourhood statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 4 February 2013
  2. H. F. Nielsen, The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations (Tuscaloosa, 1989), p. 62 [Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, and related names may reflect settlements of Thuringians].
  3. Youngs. Guide to Local Administrative Units of England: Volume 1
  4. http://www.mkweb.co.uk/statistics/documents/Population%5FBulletin%5F2005%2D6%2Epdf page 22

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