Description
Loughton, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands on Watling Street, adjacent to the L. & N.W.B., which has a siding for goods here, 2 3/4 miles SSE of Wolverton station, and 3 1/2 SE of Stony Stratford, and has a post office under Bletchley station; money order and telegraph office, Stantonbury. The parish comprises 1536 acres; population, 348. The manor belongs to the Cadmans. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style; consists of nave, S aisle, and chance], with W tower, and contains tablets to the Crane and the Athawes families. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
