Description
Calverton, a parish in Buckinghamshire, on Watling Street and the river Ouse, adjacent to the Buckingham Canal, 1 mile S of Stony-Stratford, and 2 1/2 miles WSW of Wolverton station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Stony-Stratford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1981; population of the civil parish, 658; of the ecclesiastical, 311. A Roman camp lay around the site of the church, and Roman relics have been found there. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £540 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Egmont. The church was built in 1818, and was restored and enlarged in 1870. There are six almshouses and some small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
