Description
Leckhampstead, a parish in Buckinghamshire, lying on an affluent of the river Ouse, adjacent to the Buckingham Canal and to the boundary with Northamptonshire, 3 3/4 miles NE by N of Buckingham station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Buckingham; money order and telegraph office, Deanshanger. Acreage, 2571; population, 302. The manor belongs to the Beanclerk family; about 200 acres of the land is under wood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £370 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone in the Early English style, consists of nave, N aisle, S porch, and chancel with W tower, and contains three sedilia, a piscina, an effigies of a knight, and a brass of 1506.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
