Great Linford
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Great Linford is an historic village in the northern of part of Milton Keynes, England, between the rest of Milton Keynes and Newport Pagnell.
Anciently the village was in the county of Buckinghamshire, though was incorporated into Milton Keynes at the designation of the new city in 1967.
Written as Great Linford to distinguish it from the even tinier Little Linford, the village is another on the Grand Union Canal. The name Linford is thought to derive from the crossing point over the River Ouse which now separates Great Linford from Little Linford to the north, where there were linden trees. It appears in the Domesday Book as Linforde. Today, the outer buildings of the seventeenth-century manor house form an Arts Centre, and the house itself is a prestigious recording studio.
In the early Seventeenth century, the rector of this parish Dr Richard Napier was widely known as a medical practitioner, astrologer and curer of souls. He was referred to by many in the upper classes, including the Earl of Sunderland who lived under his care for some time.
Great Linford was also home to Sir William Pritchard in the later part of that century, who was president of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He founded almshouses in Great Linford, which are still there today.
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and dates from 1215.
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