Wavendon, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide

Wavendon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Other places in the parish include: Aspley Heath, Wavendon Heath, and Woburn Sands.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1567
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575

Nonconformists include: Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Wavendon

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WAVENDON, a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands 1 mile NNW of Woburn-Sands r. station, and 4 NE of Fenny-Stratford; and has a post-office under Woburn, and a police station. The parish includes Woburn-Sands hamlet, and comprises 2,665 acres. Real property, £4,871. Pop., 879. Houses, 202. The property is much subdivided. W. House is the seat of H. A. Hoare, Esq. Fuller’s earth is at W. Heath; and a Roman amphora was found there. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £800. Patron, H. A. Hoare, Esq. The church was restored in 1849. The p. curacy of Woburn-Sands is a separate benefice. A Quakers’ chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school, are at Woburn-Sands; and an endowed school and Charities £175 are at Wavendon.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Woburn Sands

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOBURN-SANDS, a hamlet in Wavendon parish, Bucks, and a chapelry partly also in Aspley-Guise parish, Beds. The hamlet lies on the Bedford and Bletchley railway, 3 miles ENE of Fenny-Stratford; and has a post-office under Woburn, and a r. station. The chapelry was constituted in 1867. Pop., 850. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £166. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. There are chapels for Quakers and Wesleyans, and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Wavendon Parish Register Extracts

Wavendon Parish Register Extracts. Notes on the Parish Register of Wavendon including notes about plague and smallpox, violent deaths, Quakers, a Wavendon Terrier dated 1639, and the families of Fitzhugh, Sanders, Wells, and Selby [Collection of tracts by W. Bradbrook and others on the local history and parish registers of Buckinghamshire.]