Great Linford, Buckinghamshire

Description
Linford, Great, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands near the river Ouse and near Linford station on the Newport Pagnell branch of the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles WSW of Newport Pagnell, is a scattered place, and has a post office under Newport Pagnell; money order and telegraph office, Stantonbury. Acreage, 1836 ; population, 481. The manor belonged at Domesday to Hugo Bolebec and Walter Giffard, and belongs now to the Uthwatts. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £259. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early Decorated style. It contains three ancient brasses, one of which, for Roger Hunt and Johane his wife (1473), states that he paved the church. There are a Congregational chapel and six almshouses. Richard Sandy or Napier, an astrologer and physician, was rector in years preceding 1634.