{{Short description|Village in Buckinghamshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |static_image_name =St Marys Church Moulsoe.jpg |static_image_caption= The Parish Church - St Mary's of the Assumption |coordinates = {{coord|52.0687|-0.6733|display=inline,title}} |population= 332 |population_ref= (2021 census)<ref name="Census 2021">{{cite web |title=PP012 - Age |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021pp012 |website=NOMIS (Office for National Statisitcs}}, then select Milton Keynes, then this parish </ref> |official_name= Moulsoe |civil_parish= Moulsoe |unitary_england= Milton Keynes City Council | shire_district = City of Milton Keynes |lieutenancy_england=Buckinghamshire |region= South East England |constituency_westminster= Milton Keynes North |post_town= {{midsize|NEWPORT PAGNELL}} |postcode_district = MK16 |postcode_area= MK |dial_code= 01908 |os_grid_reference= SP910419 | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 11 | mapframe-point = on }}
'''Moulsoe''' is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.<ref name=BMK-parishes>{{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 | accessdate= 10 October 2020}}</ref> It is on the border with Bedfordshire, and just east of the M1, situated about {{convert|2.5|mi}} ESE of Newport Pagnell, and about {{convert|5|mi}} NNE of Central Milton Keynes. The main road through the village is the Newport Road coming from the west, changing to the Cranfield Road going east at a bend by the church.
The village name is an Old English language word which means 'Mul's hill spur'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Key to English place names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Buckinghamshire/Sherington |publisher=Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham |access-date=15 November 2025}}</ref> In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Moleshou''.<ref name=moulsoenet>[http://moulsoe.net/history.htm moulsoe.net/history.htm]</ref>
There are several old thatched dwellings. Other buildings are of brick apart from some concrete council houses to the west. The parish church dates from the 14th century and is a Grade I listed building.<ref>{{NHLE| num= 1212922 | desc= Church of St. Mary | date= 17 November 1966 | accessdate= 15 November 2025}}</ref> There is an inn, the Carrington Arms, and a village hall, the Millennium Hall.<ref name=MK>[http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/coin-print/?id=1381 www.milton-keynes.gov.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121223214923/http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/coin-print/?id=1381 |date=2012-12-23 }} Moulsoe Millennium Hall</ref>
==Caldecote== {{distinguish|Caldecotte, Milton Keynes}} Caldecote ({{Coord|52.073|N|0.715|W|display=inline}}} is a tiny hamlet off Willen Raod at the northeast corner of the parish, notable because of it being mentioned in Domesday because it had two watermills.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/buckinghamshire1.html#caldecote|title=Buckinghamshire A-E|publisher=The Domesday Book Online|accessdate=23 November 2022}}</ref>
==<span class="anchor" id="MK East"></span> Milton Keynes East== '''Milton Keynes East''' (also '''MK East''') is a substantial new development at the northern end of the parish, with strategic development approval for 5,000 houses and {{convert|105|ha|abbr=off}} for employment.<ref>{{cite web| title=Milton Keynes East {{!}} Strategic Urban Extension Development Framework {{!}} Supplementary Planning Document |url=https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-02/East%20of%20M1%20development%20framework%20ADOPTED%20VERSION.pdf |date=March 2020 |last=Milton Keynes City Council}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Thatched Moulsoe12.JPG|Yew Tree Cottage, Newport Road File:Carrington Arms Moulsoe.jpg|The Carrington Arms, Cranfield Road File:St Mary's Moulsoe.JPG|St Mary's church, view from Newport Road </gallery>
==See also== * Adjacent parishes **Newport Pagnell ** North Crawley ** Cranfield (Bedfordshire) ** Broughton and Milton Keynes ** Great Linford ** Hulcote and Salford (Bedfordshire)
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Moulsoe}} * Moulsoe on {{cite map |author = Ordnance Survey | title =OS 25-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 |map = Buckinghamshire Sheet XX.2 | map-url = https://maps.nls.uk/view/104180687 |date = 1901 |scale = 1:2,500 |publisher = Ordnance Survey |via=National Library of Scotland }} * Caldecote on {{cite map |author = Ordnance Survey | title =OS 25-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 |map = Buckinghamshire Sheet X.6 | map-url = https://maps.nls.uk/view/104180687 |date = 1925 |scale = 1:2,500 |publisher = Ordnance Survey |via=National Library of Scotland }}
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Category:Villages in Buckinghamshire Category:Areas of Milton Keynes Category:Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire
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