- Woolstone, Buckinghamshire
Great Woolstone and Little Woolstone are two historic
village s in modernMilton Keynes , ceremonial Buckinghamshire now called jointly Woolstone or The Woolstones and forming the heart of a new district of that name. [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10010810 A Vision of Great Woolstone] - Vision of Britain ] [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=3753&st=Little%20Woolstone A Vision of Little Woolstone] - Vision of Britain]The name 'Woolstone' is an
Old English language word, and means 'Wulfsige's farm'. In theDomesday Book of1086 the area was recorded as "Wlsiestone".Until shortly after the turn of the 19th century, the villages were named Woolstone Magna (Great Woolstone) and Woolstone Parva (Little Woolstone).Fact|date=June 2008 The area is now collectively known simply as "Woolstone" and it forms part of the Campbell Park Civil Parish of Milton Keynes and comes under the control of Campbell Park Parish Council. The land between the two villages is now occupied by the village cricket green.
They are both linear villages, being hemmed in by and along the north-south line of both the
River Ouzel (to the east of the villages) and of theGrand Union Canal to the west. They form part of a chain of three villages along this line, the next about a mile further south being Woughton-on-the-Green.Today, Little Woolstone is the larger of the two Woolstones, having benefitted from the building of the canal. Its village pub, "The Barge Inn", dates from this time, being opened to meet the needs of the canal labourers, but is now mainly a restaurant. [ [Source: Historic documents displayed in the pub] ] Great Woolstone still has its own village pub, the thatched roof "Cross Keys", which can trace its history back to 1560 and serves real ales. The
Church of England Church in Little Woolstone is still open and serves both villages, whilst the church in Great Woolstone closed in the 1970s and has served various purposes since then including being used as a music rehearsal room.People
*Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison ("
Sister Dora "), after whom the main road through Woolstone, Pattison Lane, is named.Fact|date=June 2008References
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