Castle Thorpe, Buckinghamshire

Description
Castle-Thorpe, a parish in Bucks, on the verge of the county, the river Tove, with a station on the L & N.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles NNE of Stony-Stratford, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Hanslope. Acreage, 1372; population of the civil parish, 441; of the ecclesiastical, 1930. The ancient castle of the barony of Hanslope stood here, but is represented now by only a deep ditch and an artificial mound. The living is a chapelry annexed to the rectory of Hanslope, in the diocese of Oxford; joint gross yearly value, £127 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is an old edifice, with low square tower, and has a monument of Judge Tyrrell, of the time of Charles II. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.