Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire
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Ravenstone is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The village is about Template:Convert west of Olney, and Template:Convert north of Newport Pagnell and about Template:Convert from Central Milton Keynes. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 209.<ref name=ONS>Template:NOMIS2011</ref>
History
The toponym is derived from the Old English for "Hrafn's farm".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1255 a priory of Augustinian canons was founded in Ravenstone by King Henry III. It was dissolved in 1525 and its lands granted to Cardinal Wolsey;Template:Sfnp 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 standing.
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,Template:Sfnp originally six for men and six for women, now combined into six cottages.<ref>Template:NHLE (Grade II listing)</ref> 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.Template:Sfnp
Scheduled monuments and listed buildings
The parish has one scheduled monument (Ravenstone Priory),<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> one grade I listed building (the Church of All Saints)<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> and a further 29 buildings or structured listed at. grade II.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Amenities
The only communal facility in Ravenstone is the village hall. A post office and The Wheatsheaf pub closed in the early 1990s.
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