Lathbury
| Lathbury | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Lathbury Manor | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP876452 |
| Location: | 52°5’60"N, -0°43’16"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 156 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Newport Pagnell |
| Postcode: | MK16 |
| Dialling code: | 01908 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Milton Keynes |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Milton Keynes North |
Lathbury is a village and parish in the Newport Hundred of Buckinghamshire.[2] It is just to the north of Newport Pagnell.
The village name is an Old English language word, meaning 'fortification built with laths or beams'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was listed as Latesberie.[3]
On the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the advowson of Latbbury Abbey was given to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford.[3] The manor of Lathbury, and Lathbury Park house, has descended through various families, including Lord Vaux, the Earl of Essex and the Andrews baronets.[3] The current Lathbury Park is a Grade II listed house dating from 1801, and incorporating elements from the earlier manor house.[4]
There was also once a 'free school' in a chapel in the churchyard, founded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, leased to the schoolmaster by Christ Church College.[3] The school was pulled down in 1698 and the materials thereof used to repair the ancient rectory.[3]
The parish church, All Saints is a Grade-I listed building, of 12th century origin.[5]
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Lathbury) |
- ↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Lathbury (E04001259)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2011_ks/report?compare=E04001259. Retrieved 18 November 2019
- ↑ "Contact your Parish, Town or Community Council". Milton Keynes Council. https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/your-council-and-elections/councillors-and-committees/parish-and-town-councils/contact-your-parish-or-town-council. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 William Page, ed (1927). "Parishes : Lathbury". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 4. London: Constable & Co. Ltd.. pp. 372-379. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp372-379.
- ↑ "Lathbury Park". https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101115930-lathbury-park-lathbury.
- ↑ "Church of All Saints A Grade I Listed Building in Lathbury, Milton Keynes". https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101115931-church-of-all-saints-lathbury.