Loughton, Milton Keynes
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Loughton is one of the many villages in Buckinghamshire that were incorporated into the new town 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.
Archival photos and recorded interviews with long-term residents of Loughton are available in 'Living Memories of London Road' (http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/loughmid99/home.html) and 'The Story of Loughton National School' (http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/loughman99/home.html)