12-585: Littleworth may refer to several places in England: Littleworth, Aylesbury Vale , Buckinghamshire Littleworth, South Bucks , Buckinghamshire Littleworth, Minchinhampton , Gloucestershire, a location Littleworth, Chipping Campden , Gloucestershire, a location Littleworth, South Oxfordshire , Oxfordshire Littleworth, Vale of White Horse , Oxfordshire Littleworth, Cannock , Staffordshire Littleworth, Stafford , Staffordshire Littleworth,
24-652: A civil parish within the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire , England . It is located in the Aylesbury Vale , about seven miles south of Central Milton Keynes , and three miles north of Wing . The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means "stronghold in a gully". In the Domesday Book of 1086, the village was recorded as Soleberie . The parish contains the hamlets of: Other places mentioned in historical records include: The parish extends as far as Rammamere Farm on Watling Street . Rammamere Heath
36-654: A place in Woodseaves , Stafford, Staffordshire, England Littleworth, Doncaster , South Yorkshire Littleworth, Warwickshire , a location in Norton Lindsey parish Littleworth, West Sussex Littleworth, Wiltshire Littleworth, Feckenham , Worcestershire, a location Littleworth, Worcestershire , near Worcester Littleworth railway station (closed), Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Littleworth [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
48-499: Is a riding stables, open to the public, adjacent to the complex. An early mention of the name as Lyscombe appears in 1418, where Roger Stok and his wife, Sara, lived, suing people from Stewkley (appearing as Stucle ) and Burcote. Soulbury gave its name to Solebury Township, Pennsylvania , which was founded by Quaker settlers from Soulbury. A glacial erratic lies in a road in the parish. The stone originated in Derbyshire, and
60-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Littleworth, Aylesbury Vale 51°54′00″N 0°43′01″W / 51.900°N 0.717°W / 51.900; -0.717 Littleworth is a hamlet in the parish of Wing , in Buckinghamshire , England. It is situated between the main village and the hamlet of Burcott . The hamlet name
72-621: Is managed with King's Wood in Heath and Reach as a nature reserve. A 17th-century mansion, Liscombe Park was originally the seat of the Lovett family, of whom the most famous member was Colonel John Lovett (c. 1660–1710), patron of the Eddystone Lighthouse . The house was rebuilt in the 1920s by the Bonsor family who live there today. The house is built of brick with small turrets and crenelations, in
84-405: Is of Old English origin, and means 'small enclosure'. Today the hamlet has all but disappeared with the growth of the village of Wing, and remains as a road name only. Littleworth is the road that leads from Wing through Burcott to Soulbury . This Buckinghamshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Soulbury Soulbury is a village and also
96-521: The ground it turned to stone. The stone came to be known as the Soulbury Boot. This story is said by some to have been made up by a previous pub landlord in order to attract visitors. This public greenspace is owned and run by a local charitable trust and was created as part of the celebrations for the turn of the Millennium in the year 2000. It is one of 245 such Millennium Greens throughout England and
108-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Littleworth&oldid=1065068544 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
120-620: The stone still remains in its ancient position. There is a public house in Soulbury called the Boot. Its pub sign features a boot of the Duke of Wellington , but the tradition of the Soulbury Boot is said to be much older than that. It is said that the Devil himself once came to the village, but the villagers came together to fight him off. One of them took his sword and cut off the Devil's foot and as it fell to
132-422: The style of an 18th-century pseudo gothic castle. The interiors are a mixture of panelling and some 18th-century styles. Near to the house is the former much older chapel, this today has been converted to a billiards room. The house is not open to the public, but the gardens are sometimes used for fairs and fetes. The stable block has been converted to a leisure and health complex, with a polo cross field. There
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#1732848120662144-553: Was deposited by the retreat of glaciers at the end of the last ice age . Oliver Cromwell is said to have used the stone as a podium during an attack on the village church during the English Civil War . Local tradition holds that the stone is the petrified foot of the devil. In March 2016, the stone was hit by a motorist who made complaints of it being a hazard, prompting the county council to investigate its removal. The parish council and villagers strongly opposed its removal and
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