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Its name is an Old English language word meaning 'Tatta's spur of land'. The village was first recorded (in the 12th century) as 'Thateo'; the village has also been known as Tattenho, Totenho (13th century); Tottynho (16th -17th century); Tattenhall (18th-19th century) and was given as Tottenhoe in Magna Britannia (1806).
Location
at the south-western edge of Milton Keynes
The Church of St Giles is a Grade II Listed building and has been desertion and loneliness but now thankfully it now stands as a church again. The first St. Giles’s Church was built on this site around 1200 AD. The yew trees in the churchyard have been dated from this time and were probably planted at the time the first church was established. The building today dates from circa 1538. It is the second church building on the site and was constructed using the stones from nearby Snelshall Priory, after the first St. Giles’s fell wholly into decay.
- Type:
- Landmark