Great Linford, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Great Linford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Strict Baptist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LINFORD (GREAT), a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands near the river Ouse, 2 miles SW of Newport-Pagnell, and 2½ E of Wolverton r. station; is a scattered place; and has a post-office under Newport-Pagnell. Acres, 1,787. Real property, £3,229. Pop., 557. Houses, 112. The property is much subdivided.
The manor belonged, at Domesday, to Hugo Bolebec and Walter Giffard; and, with Linford House, belongs now to the Rev. W. A. Uthwatt. Linford Wood is a meet for the Whaddon Chase hounds.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £400. Patron, the Rev. W. A. Uthwatt. The church is good, and has a tower.
There a re an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £10 a year, and six alms houses with £52. Richard Sandy or Napier, an astrologer and physician, was rector in years preceding 1634.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Newport Pagnell
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Pre-1845 – Lincoln, Post-1844 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Newport
- Poor Law Union: Newport Pagnell
- Hundred: Newport
- Province: Canterbury