Where is woburn sands

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For most of the 20th Century, Woburn Sands remained a small town in rural Bucks and with the coming of Milton Keynes, a small town on its rural outskirts. The expansion of Milton Keynes in the present century has seen the green fields which once surrounded us gradually disappear and Woburn Sands considerably increase in size with the development of Parklands. This large, mainly residential estate has been developed since on a site where the very big Plysu factory later Nampak plastics factory once stood.

Today the population of Woburn Sands is about 3, and with the adjacent settlements of Aspley Guise, Aspley Heath and Wavendon, forms a community of nearer 6, The town is served by Woburn Sands railway station, between it and Wavendon, on the Marston Vale line. The earliest evidence of settlement is an Iron Age hill fort dating from around BC, called Danesborough Camp which is located to the southwest of the present town.

The village name was originally Hogsty End , one of Wavendon's four 'ends' along with Church End, Cross End and Lower End but by Victorian times , this un-picturesque name had fallen out of favour, and Woburn Sands had taken over as the accepted name. There is a local story that a schoolmaster was unable to attract business to his "Hogsty End Academy", and was one of the first to promote the use of the new name, but in fact it had been in use before this.