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Ravenstone is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[2] The village is about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Olney, and 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Newport Pagnell and the northern boundary of the Milton Keynes urban area. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 209.[1]

Ravenstone
All Saints' parish church
Ravenstone Location within Buckinghamshire
Population	209 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SP850508
• London	60 miles (97 km)
Unitary authority	Milton Keynes
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Olney
Postcode district	MK46
Dialling code	01908
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Milton Keynes North
Website	Ravenstone Home Page
List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 52.1492°N 0.7642°W / 52.1492; -0.7642

History

The toponym is derived from the Old English for "Hrafn's farm".

In 1255 a priory of Augustinian canons was founded in Ravenstone by King Henry III. Cardinal Wolsey took it over in 1525, and then in 1544 the Crown seized all of Wolsey's estates including Ravenstone Priory. After changing hands privately a number of occasions the building was eventually demolished, and today nothing remains.

The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of All Saints are 11th-century. The church includes the tomb of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham. He had the neighbouring almshouses built, originally six for men and six for women, now combined into six cottages. The original inhabitants had to be single and members of the Church of England, and received a small pension, firewood, and a new cloak every Christmas.[3]

For a brief period the incumbent Thomas Scott, author of popular theological works and one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society.

A post office and The Wheatsheaf pub closed in the early 1990s.

Amenities

The only communal facility in Ravenstone is the village hall.

Notes

Sources and further reading

• Knight, E; Osborn, G (1992). Olney and District in Camera. Buckingham: Quotes Ltd. p. 72.
• Page, W.H., ed. (1927). A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria County History. Vol. 4. London: The St Katherine Press. pp. 439–445.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 230–231. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.

External links

• Ravenstone Home Page

Media related to Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire at Wikimedia Commons

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