Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire

Description
Weston Underwood, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, 1 1/2 mile WSW of Olney station on the Bedford and Northampton branch of the M.R., and 6 1/2 miles N of Newport Pagnell. It has a post office under Newport Pagnell; money order and telegraph office, Olney. Acreage, 1873; population, 325. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor has belonged since the time of Henry VI. to the Throckmortons. Weston Park is about 30 acres in extent, and contains some beautiful timber. The poet Cowper resided for some years in a house still standing on the right of the village, and he described in his poems much of the surrounding scenery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N porch, and a low embattled western tower. It was restored in 1892. It contains some ancient brasses and several memorials of the Throckmortons. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.