Loughton is one of the many villages in Buckinghamshire that became swallowed up by the urban sprawl of Milton Keynes in the 1960s. It is located to the west of the town, about three and a half miles from Milton Keynes Town Centre.
The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Luhha's estate'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Lochintone.
MiltonKeynes is home to the National Badminton Centre and the National Hockey Stadium, (which is also the temporary home ground to MiltonKeynes Dons F.C., pending completion of a permanent 30,000 seater stadium near Bletchley).
MiltonKeynes is the birthplace of Errol Barnett who is an anchor and reporter for Channel One News in the United States.
The Received Pronunciation of MiltonKeynes is [ˌmɪltənˈkiːnz], of Shenley is [ˈʃɛnlɪ], of Loughton is [ˈlaʊtən], of Woughton is [ˈwʌftən], and of Broughton is [ˈbrəʊtən].
Loughton is one of the many villages in north Buckinghamshire that were incorporated into the "new city" of MiltonKeynes in the 1960s.
It is on the Watling Street, to the west of the designated area, about three and a half miles from the centre.
Archival photos and recorded interviews with long-term residents of Loughton are available in 'Living Memories of London Road' and 'The Story of Loughton National School'
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