Medieval and Post Medieval
The village of Deanshanger developed from an original nucleus around a large green.
In the 13th century land in Deanshanger and its fields were granted to Snelshall Priory, a Benedictine monastery at Tattenhoe [now a part of Milton Keynes] and some timber clearance in the village is recorded during this period.
The Forest Map of c.1608 shows 28 buildings lining the streets of the village, surrounded by three open fields, the North Field, the South and to the west Denshanger Field.
The last remaining examples of the village’s medieval ridge and furrow ploughing system can still be seen in Deanshanger Pocket Park.
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- Front of a Henry III cut shortcross halfpenny found during the 2005 excavation at Kingsbrook School
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- Back of a Henry III cut shortcross halfpenny found during the 2005 excavation at Kingsbrook School
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- Elizabeth I Halfpenny 1584-86 found during the Kingsbrook School 2005 excavations
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- Obverse Elizabeth I Halfpenny 1584-86
