Description
Lathbury, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, on the river Ouse and the Linford Canal, three-quarters of a mile N of Newport Pagnell station on the L. & N.W.B., and 5 miles NE by E of Wolverton. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Newport Pagnell. Acreage, 1056; population of the civil parish, 146; of the ecclesiastical, 152. The manor belonged once to Chelsum, the writer against Gibbon, and belongs now to the Hood family. Lathbury House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, ££229 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone of the Norman and later periods.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
