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Simpson and Ashland

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Simpson and Ashland is a civil parish in the south of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. The parish comprises the village of Simpson and the districts of Ashland and West Ashland. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish was 1,142.

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