Water Stratford, Buckinghamshire

Description
Water Stratford, a small parish in Bucks, on the river Ouse, 3 miles E from Fulwell and Westbury station on the Banbury and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R,, and 3 1/2 W by N from Buckingham. Post town and money order office, Buckingham; telegraph office, Tingewick. Acreage, 1102; population, 137. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Parker family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £171 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Norman style.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5