Salcey Green

Salcey Green

Salcey Green is an area of farm and wood land, today, within the parish of Hanslope in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England. In 1830 it was the scene of an infamous bare-knuckle fight between the boxers Simon Byrne and Alexander McKay which resulted in McKay's death.

References and external links

* [http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Hanslope/Index.html Hanslope Parish History]
* [http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/hdhs/fight.html The Fight at Salcey Green]


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