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Lavendon is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes and ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.〔(Parishes in Milton Keynes ) - Milton Keynes Council.〕 It is the northernmost village in the Borough, near Olney, eight miles WNW of Bedford, eight miles NNE of Newport Pagnell. Nearby places are Warrington, and Cold Brayfield in Milton Keynes Borough, and Harrold and Carlton over the border in Bedfordshire. ==History== The village name is derived from a personal name and a place-name element from the Old English language (''Lafan'' + ''denu''), and means 'Lafa's valley'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Lavendene'' and ''Lawendene''.〔V. Watts, ''The Cambridge Dictionary of Place-Names'' (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004), p. 363〕 At Castle Farm are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle created in the twelfth century by de Bidun family as the headquarters of their barony of Lavendon.〔I. J. Sanders, ''English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327'' (Clarendon: Oxford, 1960), p. 128; F. Stenton, ''The First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166'', 2nd edition (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1961), p. 205n〕 The castle was last recorded in 1232. The village was once the location of a Premonstratensian abbey, founded between 1155 and 1158 by John de Bidun. The abbey was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.〔D. Knowles and R. N. Hadcock, ''Medieval Religious Houses of England and Wales'', 2nd edition (Longmans: London, 1971), pp. 184, 190〕 It stood at what is now Grange Farm. The village is on the route of the 1936 Jarrow March, there is a small plaque on the churchyard wall to commemorate this. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lavendon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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