Little Linford is a village in the City of Milton Keynes,

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, England. It is about a mile west of

Newport Pagnell Newport Pagnell is a town and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The Office for National Statistics records Newport Pagnell as part of the Milton Keynes urban area. It is separated from the rest of the urban ...

, near the M1 motorway. The village is separated from its neighbour and namesake Great Linford (and the rest of the Milton Keynes urban area) by the floodplain of the

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. Little Linford was initially a hamlet in the

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and ecclesiastical parish of Linford. The parish church is dedicated to

St Leonard Leonard of Noblac (also Leonard of Limoges or Leonard of Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard; died 559), is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Hau ...

. The traditional parish name 'Linford' is an Old English language word that means 'ford where maple trees grow'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Linforde''. The prefix 'Little' was added to distinguish it from Great Linford.

Civil parish

Little Linford is in the civil parish of "Haversham-cum-Little Linford", which also includes the nearby village of Haversham. The parish had a population of 873 according to the 2011 census. This merged parish was formed in 1934.

Little Linford Wood

Little Linford Wood is owned by

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. Today it is one of the best habitats for dormice, which were transferred to Little Linford Wood from Kent when the

Channel Tunnel rail link High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel. It is part of a line carrying international passenger traffic between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe; ...

was being constructed.

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