Description
Heath and Reach, a hamlet, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Leighton Buzzard parish, Beds, on the Grand Junction Canal, adjacent to Bucks, 2 1/2 miles N from Leighton Buzzard station on the L. & N.W.R. There is a post office under Leighton Buzzard; money order and telegraph office, Leighton Buzzard. Acreage, 2390; population, 1090. The manor belongs to the Hanmer family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £292 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leighton Buzzard. The church is modern, and has a low square tower. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. Rushmere Lodge is a chief residence. A white sand used in glass-making is found here.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
