• Source: Astwood, Buckinghamshire

Astwood is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the border with Bedfordshire, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Newport Pagnell, 7 miles (11 km) west of Bedford and 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Central Milton Keynes.
The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means "valley of the dammed".
The churchyard of the parish church of St Peter is considered by some as being one of the prettiest dogging sites in the county. Most of the older buildings in the village have thatched roofs making for a quaint rural setting.




Astwood and Hardmead civil parish


Together with the neighbouring village of Hardmead, it forms the civil parish of Astwood and Hardmead.




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External links


Media related to Astwood at Wikimedia Commons
Astwood in the Domesday Book

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• Daftar paroki sipil di Buckinghamshire
• Daftar tempat di Britania Raya/As-Az
• Astwood, Buckinghamshire
• Astwood
• Hardmead
• John Thurlow Brace
• List of places in Buckinghamshire
• Newport Hundred
• List of civil parishes in Buckinghamshire
• Newport Pagnell Rural District
• List of Buckinghamshire boundary changes
• City of Milton Keynes