Ravenstone, Derbyshire

Description
Ravenstone, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 1 mile S of the boundary with Northamptonshire, and 3 miles W of Olney station on the Bedford and Northampton branch of the M.R. Post town, Newport Pagnell; money order and telegraph office, Olney. The parish comprises 2075 acres; population, 300. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Finch family. A Black priory was founded here in 124G, and was given to Cardinal Wolsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £100 with residence. The church is Norman, in good condition, and contains a very fine monument of Lord Chancellor Finch. There are school endowments worth £150 a year, and twelve almshouses for six poor men and six poor women. The founder of the Seatonian prize poem, Cambridge University, was vicar, and is buried here.