thumb|Holy Trinity Church, Little Woolstone
Great Woolstone and Little Woolstone are two historic villages in modern Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire that are now called jointly Woolstone or The Woolstones and form the heart of a new district of that name, in the Campbell Park civil parish. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was included in the figure for the civil parish and not reported separately.
History
The name 'Woolstone' is an Old English language word, and means 'Wulfsige's farm'. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Great Woolstone was recorded as Ulsiestone. and Little Woolstone as Wlsiestone. Little Woolstone was enclosed by the (31 Geo. 3. c. 21 ), The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity in Little Woolstone now serves both villages; the church in Great Woolstone closed in the 1970s and has served various purposes since then including being used as a music rehearsal room.
The old village centre seems only a little changed from its description in Buckinghamshire Footpaths in 1949:
People
- Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison ("Sister Dora") was village schoolmistress in the parish of Little Woolston for three years from 1861; Pattison Lane, the main road through Woolstone, is named after her.
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