Slapton, Buckinghamshire

Description
Slapton, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, on the river Ouse and the borders of Bedfordshire, near the Grand Junction Canal, 1 1/2 mile SW of Cheddington Junction station on the L. & N.W.R. main line, and 3 miles S by E of Leighton Buzzard. It has a post office under Leighton Buzzard, money order and telegraph office, Cheddington. Acreage, 1413; population, 223. The manor belongs to Earl Brownlow. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and an embattled western tower. It has brasses of 1462,1519, and 1522, and a very ancient font. John Kempe, a former rector, became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1407. There is a Wesleyan chapel.