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In Saxon times Houghton Regis was a large parish.
Its origins date back to the Stone Age man and their flint weapons can still be picked up in the fields surrounding the village.
Its name is Saxon meaning ‘settlement on a hill’, and Regis means ‘King’s land’. The fact that it was royal property saved it from being pillaged and looted at the time of the Norman Conquest.
It shows in the Domesday Book as being a prosperous village with one of the largest populations for its size in the land – there were 200 people living here.
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- Landmark