Description
Brickhill, Bow a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands near Watling Street, the river Ouzel, and the Grand Junction Canal, 2 miles E of Fenny-Stratford station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Bletchley station ; money order and telegraph office, Fenny-Stratford. Acreage of parish, 1848 ; population, 464. The surface includes Bow-Brickhill eminence, 683 feet high, and is partly common. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £430 with residence. The church stands conspicuously on a steep eminence above the village, and is a building of sandstone in the Norman and Perpendicular-styles. There are also Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. Caldecot is a hamlet 1/2 a mile NW.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
