Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire

Description
Gayhurst or Gothurst, a village and a parish in Bucks, on the river Ouse, 2 3/4 miles NW of Newport-Pagnall station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 1/2 NE of Wolverton. Post town, money order and telegraph office, Newport-Pagnall. Acreage,, 1351; population of the civil parish, 97; of the ecclesiastical, 858. Gayhurst House is a Tudor mansion of the time of Elizabeth, but has been much altered; was the residence of Sir Everard Digby, and the place of some of his meetings with the gunpowder plotters; has association with the poet Cowper, who expressed high admiration of its situation and gardens, and is now the seat of the Carlile family. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Stoke-Goldington, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net yearly value, £230. The church, a small building of stone in the Italian style, was built from designs by Sir Christopher Wren.