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Great Linford is named to distinguish it from the even smaller village of Little Linford, which has about 800 people.
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FILE 17 / 10 May 2017 / 62 MIN / full
Let's head over to Great Lindford in Milton Keens, Buckinghamshire, England. about 0:04:57
Great Linford is named to distinguish it from the even smaller village of Little Linford, which has about 800 people.
about 0:06:33The first reference to Linford is in 944, when King Edmund gave land at Linforda to his thane Alfia with liberty to leave it to whomever he wished.
about 0:07:26It appears in the Domesday Book as Linforda.
about 0:07:31The name is thought to derive from a crossing point on the River Ouse between Great Linford and Little Linford, with linden trees nearby.
about 0:07:51Great Linford is named to distinguish it from the even smaller village of Little Linford, which has about 800 people.
about 0:06:33The first reference to Linford is in 944, when King Edmund gave land at Linforda to his thane Alfia with liberty to leave it to whomever he wished.
about 0:07:26It appears in the Domesday Book as Linforda.
about 0:07:31The name is thought to derive from a crossing point on the River Ouse between Great Linford and Little Linford, with linden trees nearby.
about 0:07:51In the early 16th century the rector of the parish was Dr Richard Napier, a medical practitioner who was also an astrologer and a curer of souls.
about 0:08:14The civil parish includes Gifford Park, Blakelands, Neath Hill, Pennyland, Tongwell, Conniburrow, Downs Barn and Downhead Park.
about 0:08:58Linford Manor, later known as Great Linford Manor, was built in 1678 by Sir William Pritchard, who bought the land from the Napier family on the site of an older medieval manor.
about 0:09:36Pritchard passed the manor on to relatives in 1704.
about 0:09:52In the late 1970s it was converted, first as an activity centre and then as a recording studio; it is now owned by Pete Winkleman, chairman of Milton Keynes Dons football club.
about 0:10:14Great Linford was incorporated into Milton Keynes in 1967 along with other north Buckinghamshire villages.
about 0:11:56White 15,500 of 20,000 · Black almost 1,700
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"11,882"
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"19,350"
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"a little above average"
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"about 50% more than single people"
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"31"
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"about 1,500"
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"4,300"
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"about 4,000"
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"about half"
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"147"
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"9,523"
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"17,000 out of 20,000"
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"15,500 of 20,000"
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"almost 1,700"
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"10%"
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"about 1,000"
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"about 6,600"
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"2,000"
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"1,200"
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"almost 1,000"
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"1,700"
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"560"
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"about half"
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"6,400"
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"about 10%"
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"about 10%"
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"4"
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"385,000 pounds"
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"595,000 pounds"
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"156,500 pounds"
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Great Linford is a village in the north of Buckinghamshire, England, about an hour and ten minutes from London and now part of Milton Keynes. Its parish grew from 263 people in 1971 to 11,882 in 1981 and stands at about 19,350. He attended the Radcliffe School in Wolverton and studied art there and later at Northampton University.
He was depressed, had severe social anxiety and was drinking heavily. He kept a diary that read like a to-do list. One entry said: 'quit job tomorrow, get milk, get Mick killed, get Stuart to withdraw cash every day, when all gone, kill him. Repeat... plan ad infinitum all over the world in Las Vegas and swanky bars.' The people he named were men he knew from the Pilgrims Pride pub in Great Linford.
He then went to the home of Mick Cowell, a man in his fifties, intending to rob and kill him. Cowell's girlfriend, 48-year-old Dorothy Rogers, and her 19-year-old son Michael were also there.
Michael, who had seen the attack from another room, ran out of the house. He admitted the murders.
The evidence against him included witnesses, fingerprints, his diary and his own admissions. A team of five psychiatrists diagnosed major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder and alcohol dependence, and said he had been suffering a psychotic episode.
On November 16, 2009 he was moved to a less secure facility at Littlemore in Oxford, where he was said to be doing well. He was allowed unsupervised trips of about two hours a week to see his parents in Great Linford. In March 2011 a mental health tribunal considered releasing him; hundreds of people protested and a Facebook group was set up against the move. In August 2011, despite the protests, he was granted a conditional discharge.
In July 2014 he sent a 1,600-word email to the local paper claiming that he had believed the world was a video game emanating from a blue orb in the back of his head, and that the only way to escape was to commit horrific crimes. He later appeared in a video for a YouTube watch commentator called Archie Luxury, showing off a 25,000-dollar Patek Philippe watch and drinking expensive whisky. A former friend said the thought of him drinking again and spending thousands on watches was disgusting. He lives at an unknown address. Mick Cowell, who survived the attack, died at 63 after a fall in his own home.
January 28, 2003 / Mick Cowell's house and a nearby children's playground, Great Linford
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