Description
Whitfield, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 2 1/2 miles NNE of Brackley station on the Bletchley and Banbury branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 7 NW by W from Buckingham. It has a post and money order office under Brackley; telegraph office, Brackley. Acreage, 990; population of the civil parish, 193; of the ecclesiastical, 206. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £160. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church, which was rebuilt in 1870, is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, organ chamber and vestry, N aisle, S porch, and a western tower with an octagonal broach spire. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
