CLIFTON REYNES

'Clifton Reynes' is a village in the Borough of Milton Keynes, in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about a mile east of Olney. It is a civil parish, and has a joint parish council with Newton Blossomville.

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Extent

Origin of name

Buildings of note

Extent

It is bounded, on the North, by the River Great Ouse, by which this parish is separated from Lavendon and Cold Brayfield; on the East, by Newton-Blossomville; on the South, by Petsoe and Emberton; and on the West, by the latter and by Olney.

Origin of name

The village name comes in two parts: the former name 'Clifton' is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Cliff farm', referring to the village's position on a cliff on a bank of the River Ouse. The latter name 'Reynes' refers to the ancient lords of the manor of the village, whose family name this was. In the Domesday Book on 1086 Clifton Reynes was recorded as ''Cliftone''.

Buildings of note

The parish church dedicated to St Mary (unusually for a Buckinghamshire church) is completely castellated: even the gables are embattled. The tower is thought to be Norman, however the top is later probably 14th century.