Silverstone, Northamptonshire

Description
Silverstone, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 4 miles SSW of Towcester station on the L. & N.W.R., and 7 NNW of Buckingham. It was the place where Richard I. in 1194 met William of Scotland, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Towcester. Acreage, 1856; population, 1125. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The village is on the borders of Whittlebury Forest, and a good trade in timber is carried on. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Loder family. The living is a chapel of ease, annexed to Whittlebury; joint net value, £230, in the gift of the Crown. The church, a building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1884 at a cost of £5000. There is a Wesleyan chapel.