Lillingstone Lovell

"See also: - Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey"

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Lillingstone Lovell
latitude= 52.0582
longitude= -0.9605
civil_parish= Lillingstone Lovell
population = 165 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792058&c=lillingstone+lovell&d=16&e=15&g=424283&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216551995324&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census] ]
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county= Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Buckingham
post_town= BUCKINGHAM
postcode_district= MK19
postcode_area= MK
dial_code= 01280
os_grid_reference= SP715405

Lillingstone Lovell is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about three and a half miles north of Buckingham, eight miles west of Milton Keynes and five miles south of Towcester. Lillingstone Lovell is adjacent to the village of Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey a separate civil parish.

The village name 'Lillingstone' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Lytel's boundary stone' [ [http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/LillingstoneDayrell/Index.html Genuki Project - Lillingstone Dayrell] ] , referring to the proximity of both places to the border with Northamptonshire. At the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 both settlements were recorded jointly as "Lillingestan" though already at that time there were two manors owned respectively by the Dayrell and Lovell families. During the 13th century Lillingstone Lovell was known as "Lillingstone Magna" distinguishing it from its neighbour sometimes recorded as "Lillingstone Parva". This is believed to refer more to administrative ascendancy rather than territorial size. The adoption of 'Lovell' name came later probably as a tribute to the Lordship of the manor by the Lovell family line which died out in the early 14th century. Unlike its neighbour, Livingstone Lovell was included within a detached portion of Oxfordshire under the control of the royal manor of Kirklington, valued for their woodland and hunting being part of the ancient Whittlewood Forest. It finally transferred to Buckinghamshire in 1844. [ [http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/whittlewood/Llovell.htm Whittlewood Project University of Leicester] ]

The church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed to date back to the 13th Century although it was rebuilt in the 14th Century. By the middle part of the 18th century it had fallen into disrepair and was repaired and refurbished around 1777 retaining the original medieval tower.

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* [http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/buckinghamshire.html The deserted medieval village and the surviving church]