Cold Brayfield

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Cold Brayfield
Cold Brayfield shown within Buckinghamshire
OS grid reference	SP929523
Unitary authority	Milton Keynes
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	OLNEY
Postcode district	MK46
Dialling code	01234
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	North East Milton Keynes
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Coordinates: 52°09′40″N 0°38′31″W / 52.161, -0.642

Cold Brayfield is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is about three miles east of Olney, on the Bedfordshire border. Nearby places are Lavendon and Turvey (over the bridge on the Bedfordshire side of the River Great Ouse).

The village name is from both modern and Old English. The affix 'Cold' refers to the village's bleak location on the banks of the River Great Ouse. The last part 'Brayfield' means 'open land by higher ground' and was referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 967 as Bragenfelda.

Anciently the manor of Brayfield belonged to the Blossomville family of nearby Newton Blossomville.

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v • d • e River Great Ouse, UK Administrative areas: Northamptonshire · Buckinghamshire · Milton Keynes · Bedfordshire · Cambridgeshire · Norfolk Flows into: The Wash Towns (upstream to downstream): Brackley · Buckingham · Old Stratford Milton Keynes (Stony Stratford, Wolverton, New Bradwell) · Newport Pagnell · Olney · Kempston · Bedford · St Neots · Godmanchester · Huntingdon · St Ives · Ely · Littleport · Downham Market · King's Lynn Major tributaries (upstream to downstream by confluence): River Tove  · River Ouzel (or Lovat) · River Ivel River Kym · Old Bedford River · New Bedford River · River Cam · River Lark · River Little Ouse · River Wissey Major bridges (upstream to downstream): Harrold bridge · A428 Turvey bridge · A428 Bromham bypass A6 Bedford Town Bridge · A421 Bedford bypass · Great Barford Bridge A428 Bridge St Neots · St Neots Town Bridge · Godmanchester Chinese Bridge A14 bridge, River Great Ouse · Huntingdon Old Bridge · St Ives Bridge Longest UK rivers: 1. Severn 2. Thames 3. Trent 4. Great Ouse 5. Wye 6. Tay 7. Spey 8. Nene 9. Clyde 10. Tweed 11. Eden 12. Dee