Drayton Parslow
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| Drayton Parslow | |
  Drayton Parslow shown within Buckinghamshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| District | Aylesbury Vale |
| Shire county | Buckinghamshire |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MILTON KEYNES |
| Postcode district | MK17 |
| Dialling code | 01296 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Buckingham |
| List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire | |
Drayton Parslow is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the north east of the Aylesbury Vale, about five miles east of Winslow.
The village name 'Drayton' is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'farm where sledges are used'. It is a common place name in England, and refers to places that were perched on the hillside, thus requiring the use of a sledge rather than a cart to pull heavy loads. The suffix 'Parslow' derives from 'Passelaw', the ancient manorial family of the parish, commonly added to differentiate from another village in the county Drayton Beauchamp.
Drayton Parslow Village School is a mixed, community, infant school, which takes children from the age of four through to the age of seven, when they generally move to a school in Stewkley or Winslow. The school is quite small, with approximately forty-five pupils.
