Filgrave

{{Short description|Hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} thumb|Filgrave '''Filgrave''' is a hamlet in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.<ref name=OS152>{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 152 ''Northampton & Milton Keynes (Buckingham & Daventry)''|ISBN= 9780319231715 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2014}}</ref> <ref name=OSGaz50>{{cite web |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html |title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer |format=csv (download) |date= 1 January 2016 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |accessdate=18 February 2016}}</ref> It is about {{convert|3|mi}} north of Newport Pagnell and {{convert|6|mi}} north-east of Central Milton Keynes.

The hamlet name is an Old English language word, and means 'Fygla's grove'.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|first1= A.D.|last1= Mills|publisher=Oxford University Press| location=Oxford| orig-year= first published 1991|date=2011|edition=First edition revised 2011|isbn=9780199609086|page=188}}</ref> In manorial rolls of 1241 it was listed as ''Filegrave''.

==Civil parish== Together with its neighbouring village, it forms the civil parish of Tyringham and Filgrave.

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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Filgrave}}

Category:Hamlets in Buckinghamshire Category:Areas of Milton Keynes