Simpson is a village

Village

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 and civil parish in Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

, Buckinghamshire, England

England

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. It was one of the former villages of Buckinghamshire

History of Buckinghamshire

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 that was included in the New City

History of Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is a large town in South East England, founded in 1967. This history of Milton Keynes details its development from the earliest human settlements, through the plans for a 'new city' for 250,000 people in south central England, its subsequent urban design and development, to the...

 in 1967. It is located south of the centre, just north of Fenny Stratford

Fenny Stratford

Fenny Stratford is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England and in the Civil Parish of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford. Originally an independent town, it was included in the Milton Keynes "designated area" area in 1967...

, near Walton

Walton, Milton Keynes

Walton was a hamlet that is now a district and civil parish in Milton Keynes, ceremonial Buckinghamshire, England.The historic hamlet is located about four miles south of Central Milton Keynes and just east of Simpson, mostly along Walton Road in the modern Walnut Tree district...

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The village name is an Old English language

Old English language

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 word, and means 'Sigewine's farm'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 of 1086 as Siwinestone.

In the mid 19th century the village was described as "in appearance, one of the most wretched of many miserable villages in the county". This was due to the author's approach to the village being blocked in the winter time by a ford 200 yards wide, and three feet deep. This ford was fixed in the 1860s when the road was raised by three and a half feet by the Warren family, lords of the manor

Lord of the Manor

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Civil parish

The civil parish is a small one, consisting of Simpson itself, Ashland and West Ashland.

Ashland

Ashland was best known for the original Milton Keynes Stadium, a greyhound racing

Greyhound racing

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 track. It had been running since the 1960s but was demolished in 2006 to make way for new housing developments. The track was to be relocated to Elfield Park near the National Bowl but has yet to materialise.

West Ashland

This tiny district, logically part of the Denbigh grid-square but severed from it by the A5 dual carriageway, is mostly undeveloped as of mid-2011. The only development there to that date is the national headquarters and commissary for Domino's Pizza

Domino's Pizza

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, UK.