Linford, Buckinhamshire, England
Great and Little Linford are historic villages, a district and wider civil parish in
the north of Milton Keynes,Buckinghamshire, England, between Wolverton
and Newport Pagnell.
The first reference to Linford occurs in 944, when "King Edmund gave
to his thegn Aelfheah, land at Linforda with liberty to leave it to
whom he wished"; it appears in the Domesday Book as Linforda. Linford was
previously a Saxon settlement in the seventh century.
The Mapley family lived for many
generations in Great and Little Linford, with Casa Linford in Sierra
Nevada owned by David Mapley
