Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire

Description
Newton Longville or Newaston Longville, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 2 1/2 miles SW of Bletchley Junction station on the L. & N.W.R. main line, and 10 ESE of Buckingham, and took the latter part of its name from a priory founded in the time of Henry I. as a cell to the Cluniac abbey of St Faith at Longueville in Normandy, and given in 1415 to New College, Oxford. It has a post office under Bletchley station; money order and telegraph office, Bletchley station. The parish comprises 1735 acres; population, 415. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to New College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £330 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, partly Early English, partly Perpendicular; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and N chapel, with porches and 1/2V tower, having a clock on N side; has on the outer wall a statue of St Faith; and contains piscina;, credence shelves, and an ancient font. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Grocyn, the tutor of Erasmus, was rector, and a brass tablet was erected in 1889 in the church to his memory.