Wavendon, Buckinghamshire

Description
Wavendon, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 1 mile NNW of Woburn Sands station on the Bedford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R, and 5 SE from Newport Pagnell, with a post office under Bletchley Station , money order and telegraph office, Woburn Sands. The parish includes Woburn Sands hamlet, and comprises 2192 acres; population of the civil parish, 1281; of the ecclesiastical, 529. There is a county police station. Wavendon Hall is a mansion of brick standing in a park of abont 118 acres. A Roman amphora was found at Wavendon Heath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £521 with residence. The church, which was thoroughly restored in 1848-49, is an ancient building in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.