Woolstone, Milton Keynes
village in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Great Woolstone and Little Woolstone are two historic villages in modern Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire that are now called jointly Woolstone or The Woolstones and form the heart of a new district of that name, in the Campbell Park civil parish. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was included in the figure for the civil parish and not reported separately.
History
The name 'Woolstone' is an Old English language word, and means 'Wulfsige's farm'. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Great Woolstone was recorded as Ulsiestone. and Little Woolstone as Wlsiestone. Little Woolstone was enclosed by the Little Woolstone Inclosure Act 1791 (31 Geo. 3. c. 21 Pr.), and Great Woolstone by the Great Woolstone Inclosure Act 1796 (36 Geo. 3.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Woolstone, Milton Keynes” is village in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Woolstone, Milton and Keynes, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8033959. Authority coordinates are 52.044, -0.726. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1086, 1791 and 1796.
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