Calverton, Buckinghamshire

{{short description|Civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

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|country = England

|official_name= Calverton

|civil_parish= Calverton

|unitary_england= Milton Keynes City Council

| shire_district = City of Milton Keynes

|lieutenancy_england= Buckinghamshire

|region= South East England

|constituency_westminster=Milton Keynes South

|post_town= MILTON KEYNES

|postcode_area= MK

|postcode_district= MK19

| static_image_name = All Saints Church, Calverton, Buckinghamshire.jpg

| static_image_caption = All Saints Church, Calverton

|dial_code= 01908

| population = 197

| population_ref = (2011 Census){{NOMIS2011|id=E04012180|title=Calverton|access-date=17 November 2019}}

|os_grid_reference= SP788387

|coordinates = {{coord|52.0414|-0.8500|display=inline,title}}

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Calverton is a civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and just outside the Milton Keynes urban area, situated roughly {{convert|1|mi}} south of Stony Stratford, and {{convert|4|mi}} west of Central Milton Keynes.{{cite web |url=https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/your-council-and-elections/councillors-and-committees/parish-and-town-councils/contact-your-parish-or-town-council | title = Contact your Parish, Town or Community Council | publisher = Milton Keynes Council | access-date= 10 October 2020}} The parish consists of one village, Lower Weald, and two hamlets, Upper Weald and Middle Weald. Lower Weald is the largest of the three settlements, and Manor Farm, the parish church and the former parochial school are within its boundaries.{{cite map |title= Explorer map sheet 192 Buckingham & Milton Keynes|url=https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?x=479490&y=238285&z=115&sv=479490,238285&st=4&ar=Y,y |via=Streetmap.co.uk |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2002}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/# |title=Ordnance Survey Election Maps |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=3 April 2016}}

The settlement name is Old English, and means 'farm where calves are reared'.{{cite web |title=Key to English place names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Buckinghamshire/Calverton |publisher=Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham |access-date=11 April 2022}} In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Calvretone.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp308-311 | chapter = Parishes : Calverton |series = Victoria History of the Counties of England | title= A History of the County of Buckingham | volume= 4 | date=1927 | pages = 308{{ndash}}311 |editor= William Page |publisher= Constable & Co. Ltd. | location = London }}

The west side of nearby Stony Stratford was once included with the ecclesiastic parish of Calverton (the east side being in Wolverton). "The manorial rights over the west side were held with those of Calverton, [which] led to the manor of Calverton being often called 'the manor of Calverton with Stony Stratford', and the fair and market of Stony Stratford were included among its appurtenances, until an Act of Parliament in the 18th century separated them.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp476-482 | chapter = Parishes : Stony Stratford |series = Victoria History of the Counties of England | title= A History of the County of Buckingham | volume= 4 | date=1927 | pages = 476{{ndash}}482 |editor= William Page |publisher= Constable & Co. Ltd. | location = London }}

The parish of Calverton was part of Stratford and Wolverton Rural District from 1894 to 1919, when the rural district became an urban district, subsequently renamed Wolverton urban district in 1920.{{cite web |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |title=Calverton CP/AP through time |series=A Vision of Britain through Time |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10218901 |access-date=10 October 2023}} The area was re-established as a separate parish in 2001.

The parish church is dedicated to All Saints. "It was rebuilt in stone in the 12th- and 14th-century styles between 1818 and 1824, when some of the old details were re-used".