Shenley, Milton Keynes

Shenley (which consists of the villages of Shenley Brook End and Shenley Church End) is one of the parts of Buckinghamshire that went into the urban sprawl of Milton Keynes in the 1960s. It is located to the west of Milton Keynes town, on the Roman road Watling Street between Stony Stratford and Fenny Stratford.

The village name 'Shenley' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'bright clearing'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the area was collectively known as Senelai.

The distinction between the Brook End and the Church End happened in the Twelfth century when a new manor was constructed in Shenley Brook End by the Mansell family. However by 1426 the two manors were owned by the same person and the distinction between the two places was in name only.

The area should not be confused with other places called Shenley.