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{{short description|Civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, England}}
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|country = England
|coordinates = {{coord|52.1122|-0.7608|display=inline,title}}
|population= 128
|population_ref=(2011 Census)<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=E04001254|title=Gayhurst|accessdate=18 November 2019}}</ref>
|official_name= Gayhurst
|civil_parish=Gayhurst
|unitary_england= [[City of Milton Keynes
|lieutenancy_england=[[Buckinghamshire]]
|region= South East England
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|dial_code= 01908
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'''Gayhurst''' is a village and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[
The village name is an [[Old English language]] word meaning 'wooded hill where goats are kept'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Key to English place names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Buckinghamshire/Gayhurst |publisher=Institute for Name-Studies, [[University of Nottingham]] |access-date=24 November 2022}}</ref> In the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086 it was recorded as ''Gateherst''; later names include Goathurst.<ref name=VCH /> At that time the [[Manorialism|manor]] was owned by [[Bishop]] [[Odo of Bayeux]].<ref name=VCH>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp343-347 |series = [[Victoria History of the Counties of England]] |publisher= [[Constable & Robinson|Constable & Co. Ltd.]] |title= A History of the County of Buckingham |chapter = Parishes : Gayhurst |volume = 4 |pages=343{{ndash}}347 |editor= William Paige | date=1927}}</ref>
==History==
Gayhurst had an outstation from the [[Bletchley Park]] codebreaking establishment, where some of the [[Bombe]]s used to decode German [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] messages in World War Two were housed.▼
In 1582, [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] made a grant of [[Gayhurst House|Gayhurst Manor]] "in the event of its reversion to the Crown" to [[Sir Francis Drake]],<ref name=VCH /> but there is no record that he ever received it. The house once belonged to Sir [[Everard Digby]] (1578–1606),<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Digby, Sir Everard | volume= 8 |last= Yorke | first= Philip Chesney |author-link= | pages = 260–261 |short= 1}}</ref> one of the conspirators in the [[Gunpowder Plot]] of 1605.<ref name=VCH /> His son, Sir [[Kenelm Digby]] (1603–1665), was an English courtier, diplomat, natural philosopher and astrologer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Digby, Sir Kenelm | volume= 8 |last= Yorke | first= Philip Chesney |author-link= | pages = 261–262 |short= 1}}</ref> He was born at Gayhurst.
▲Gayhurst had an outstation from the [[Bletchley Park]] codebreaking establishment, where
===Listed buildings and structures===
The parish has two buildings [[listed building|listed]] at Grade I,<ref>{{NHLE |num=1115951 |desc=Flat numbers 13 to 26, Gayhurst Court }};<br />{{NHLE |num=1211931 |desc=Church of St Peter, Gayhurst Court }}</ref> five at Grade II* and 20 at grade II.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/results/?searchType=NHLE+Simple&search=Gayhurst&page=1 |title= Search Results for 'Gayhurst' | publisher=Historic England |access-date=24 November 2022}}</ref> <!-- The search returns a total of 31 but four of the places listed are not in Gayhurst --> The (Grade I listed) Church of St Peter was built in the classical style in 1728 to replace a medieval church; the designer is unknown.<ref>Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) ''Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South''. London: Collins; p. 127</ref>
==References==
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{{Commons category|Gayhurst}}
{{Milton Keynes parishes}}
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[[Category:Villages in Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Areas of Milton Keynes]]
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