Place:Loughton, Buckinghamshire, England

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NameLoughton
Alt namesLochintonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 42
TypeVillage
Coordinates52.017°N 0.783°W
Located inBuckinghamshire, England
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Loughton is an ancient village, modern district and civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The village spreads between Watling Street and the modern A5 road, to the west of, and about 1 mile from, the city centre.

The village name is an Old English language word, and means 'Luhha's estate'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Lochintone. All Saints Church is the oldest surviving building in Loughtonthe chancel and nave probably date from the first years of the 13th century, though all the original details have been removed during subsequent alterations.[1]

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