Lavendon, Buckinghamshire

Description
Lavendon, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 1 mile W of the river Onse, at the boundary with Beds, 3 miles NE from Oiney station on the M.R., and 8 NW from Newport PagnelL It was once a market-town, and has a post and money order office under Newport Pagnell; telegraph office, Turvey. Acreage of the civil parish, 2353; population, 654; of the ecclesiastical, with Cold Brayfield, 745. Owing to the crowded condition of the old churchyard a new cemetery was formed in 1894. The Grange is the seat of the Brookes family. A Premonstratensian canonry was founded here in the time of Henry II. by John de Bidun, and was given at the dissolution to Sir Edmund Peckham. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Cold Bray-field, in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £200. The church is a building of stone, said to be partly Saxon and partly of later date, comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower, and contains four piscinae, and some ancient brasses and monuments. A new organ was placed in the churcli in 1892. There are also Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.