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'''Gayhurst''' is a village and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[Milton Keynes (borough)|Borough of Milton Keynes]], ceremonial [[Buckinghamshire#Ceremonial County|Buckinghamshire]] in [[England]].<ref>[http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/parishes/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=17026 Parishes in Milton Keynes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608003948/http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/parishes/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=17026 |date=June 8, 2009 }} - Milton Keynes Council.</ref> It is about two and a half miles NNW of [[Newport Pagnell]].
The village name is an [[Old English language]] word meaning 'wooded hill where goats are kept'. 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/
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.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
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