Hardmead

Also known as Hardmead, Buckinghamshire

Hardmead is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the north of the borough, about west of Bedford, north-east of Central Milton Keynes and north east of Newport Pagnell. The village is close to the A422 road, on a very small road linking that to nearby Newton Blossomville. Together with the neighbouring village of Astwood, it forms the civil parish of Astwood and Hardmead.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Hardmead is referenced by 69 other articles, and connects out to England, list of sovereign states and geographic coordinate system.

It is catalogued under topics including Areas of Milton Keynes, Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire and Villages in Buckinghamshire.

Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.

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Place details

Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 0

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Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.population: 88
UK place.population_ref: (2021 census)
UK place.official_name: Hardmead
UK place.civil_parish: Hardmead
UK place.unitary_england: Milton Keynes
UK place.lieutenancy_england: Buckinghamshire
UK place.region: South East England
UK place.constituency_westminster: Milton Keynes North
UK place.post_town: NEWPORT PAGNELL
UK place.postcode_district: MK16
UK place.postcode_area: MK
UK place.dial_code: 01234
UK place.os_grid_reference: SP935476
UK place.static_image_name: Hardmead Rectory - geograph.org.uk - 276544.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Hardmead Rectory
UK place.mapframe: yes
UK place.mapframe zoom: 11

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Wikidata facts

Population: 85
Image: St Mary, Hardmead, Bucks - geograph.org.uk - 332136.jpg
Dialing code: 01908

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Commons category: Hardmead
OS grid reference: SP935476
postal code: MK16
P8168: Janet Leigh

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Astwood and Hardmead civil parish council
Church of St Mary
Scheduled monument
References
External links

The village name is Old English in origin, and means 'Heoruwulf's meadow'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was called Herulfmede. The village is very small with a population of around 100 people. The nearest pub is located one mile away in Astwood and the nearest shop is about four miles distant.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hardmead” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.