Hanslope is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

[2] The toponym's etymology is from the Old English for a slippery or muddy place belonging to Haema, or possibly "hemmed-in land at the slope".

After King John's death, Maudit reclaimed his seat and founded a great park in the parish, remnants of which still survive in Hanslope.

[13][14] Between 2002 and 2021, the ward of Newport Pagnell North and Hanslope had a single representative that was voted in every four years and always returned a Conservative councillor.

Hanslope is conveniently close to quarries for Great Oolite limestone,[16] which has been used in the parish's traditional vernacular architecture.

William Newcome was ordained as a Church of England priest and became curate at Hanslope in Buckinghamshire until 1846, when he was appointed rector of Boothby Pagnell in Lincolnshire.

[20] One notable incumbent was James Mayne MA who was rector from 1841 to 1851,[21] previously curate of St Matthew's, Bethnal Green.

Once the manorial estate of the village, it is now owned by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and is home to HM Government Communications Centre.

[24] Hanslope is served by the 33 bus which has Northampton and Central Milton Keynes as opposite ends of its routes and also passes through Wootton, Quinton, Roade, Ashton, Hartwell, Castlethorpe, Haversham, Wolverton and Bradwell, running approximately hourly from Monday to Saturday and does not run on Sundays or public holidays.

Hanslope Junction (at 52°07′06″N 0°51′37″W / 52.1183°N 0.86028°W / 52.1183; -0.86028, roughly midway between Roade and Castlethorpe) is the point where trains may cross between the mainline and the loop tracks, under signal control.

In the chainage notation traditionally used on the railway, its location on the line is 56 miles 65 chains (56.81 mi; 91.43 km) from Euston.

In 1697 the distinguished clockmaker Joseph Knibb (1640–1711) retired from London to Hanslope,[28] acquiring Green End Farm with a total of about 230 acres (93 ha) of land.

[28] His will, proved in 1712 left his Hanslope property to his younger brother John Knibb[3] (1650–1722),[30] who was a notable clockmaker in Oxford.

[4] Green End Farmhouse predated the Knibbs' ownership of the farm and was a scheduled monument under the Town and Country Planning Act 1947.