Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Newton Longville is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.
Alternative names: Newaston-Longville
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1560
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Primitive Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NEWTON-LONGVILLE, or Newaston-Longville, a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands 1 mile S of the Oxford and Bletchley railway, 2 S W of Bletchley r. station, and 10 ESE of Buckingham; and took the latter part of its name from a priory founded in the time of Henry I., as a cell to the Cluniac abbey of St. Faith, at Longueville in Normandy, and given, in 1415, to New College, Oxford.
The parish comprises 1,718 acres. Post-town, Bletchley Station. Real property, £2,264. Pop., 547. Houses, 121. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to New College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £330. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is partly early English, partly perpendicular; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and N chapel, with porches and W tower; has, on the outer wall, a statue of St. Faith; and contains piscinæ, credence shelves, and a recently-restored ancient font. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, and a national school. Grocyn, the tutor of Erasmus, was rector.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Newton-Longville, 2 m. S. Fenny-Stratford. P. 565
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Parish Registers
The Parish Registers of Newton Longville 1560 to 1840 Transcribed and arranged by William Bradbrook and Edited by W. Bruce Bannerman. – Part 1 Surnames A to Li, Baptisms, Banns, Marriages and Burials 1560 to 1840. Part 2 Surnames Li to Y, Baptisms, Banns, Marriages and Burials 1560 to 1840. No Name 1583 to 1763, Banns 1812 to 1823. Publisher: William Bradbrook and W. Bruce Bannerman Date of publication: 1921 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
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Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Newport Pagnell
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Oxford, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Newport
- Poor Law Union: Newport Pagnell
- Hundred: Newport
- Province: Canterbury