Moulsoe is a village

Village

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 and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes (borough)

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 and ceremonial county

Ceremonial counties of England

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 of Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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, England

England

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. It is on the border with Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

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, just across the M1

M1 motorway

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 from Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

 itself, and about two and a half miles ESE of Newport Pagnell

Newport Pagnell

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.

The village name, is an Old English language

Old English language

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 word, and means 'Mul's hill spur'. In the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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of 1086 the village was recorded as Moleshou.

At the 2001 Census, the population of the parish was 330.

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