Lillingstone Dayrell
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Lillingstone Dayrell is a village in the civil parish of Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about three and a half miles north of Buckingham, eight miles west of Milton Keynes and five miles south of Towcester. At the 2021 census the population of the civil parish was 100.
History
The village name 'Lillingstone' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Lytel's boundary stone', referring to the proximity of both places to the border with Northamptonshire. In the Domesday Book of 1086, both settlements were recorded jointly as Lillingestan though already at that time there were two manors owned respectively by the Dayrell and Lovell families. The suffix 'Dayrell' (as 'Dayerell') was first recorded in the fourteenth century. The Dayrell family were Lords of the Manor from the fourteenth century until the 1880s.<ref>'Parishes : Lillingstone Dayrell'Template:Spaced ndashVictoria History of the Counties of England, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 187-191. Date accessed: 14 January 2012</ref>
Lillingstone Dayrell was an ancient parish. In 2001 the parish absorbed the area of the neighbouring parish of Luffield Abbey, which was abolished. The enlarged parish was renamed Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey at the same time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> At the 1971 census (the penultimate one before the merger with Luffield Abbey and rename), Lillingstone Dayrell had a population of 141.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable buildings
The parish church of Lillingstone Dayrell is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra.
Lillingstone House is the ancient seat of the Dayrell family.
In 1882, the banker Abraham John Robarts, of Robarts, Lubbock & Co., then the tenant of Lillingstone House, built Tile House in the village for himself, designed by Ewan Christian. This is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as “Neo-Elizabethan, big and forbidding with groups of huge chimneys.”<ref>Nikolaus Pevsner, Elizabeth Williamson, Geoffrey K. Brandwood, Buckinghamshire (1994), p. 432</ref>
Notable people
- Gerald Robarts (1878–1961), banker, soldier, and notable squash player, lived at Lillingstone Dayrell House.<ref>The London Gazette, issue 33299 dated 2 August 1927, p. 5002</ref>
References
Further reading
- Eleonora Dayrell, The History of the Dayrells of Lillingstone Dayrell (1885)