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  LAVENDON is a parish and large village on the borders
of Bedfordshire, 3 miles north-east from
Olney, 9½ west from Bedford, 12 from
Northampton and 8 north-east from Newport
Pagnell, in the hundred, union and county
court district of Newport Pagnell, rural
deanery of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry
of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford. The
church of St. Mary is an ancient Saxon structure
supposed to be 1,000 years old; it was restored
in 1859 at a cost of £800, has a chancel,
nave and aisles with tower and 5 bells; a
piece of the upper part of the north wall
of the nave has not been restored but left
as a specimen of Saxon work; there are two mural tablets in memory
of two former rectors, dates respectively
1654 and 1670, and two stained windows, one
in the east of the chancel, given by Mr.
Benjamin S. Brookes, the other given by Mr.
H. Coles; the church contains four piscinae.
The register dates from the year [1574].
The living is a rectory, with Cold Brafield
annexed, joint yearly value £284 with
residence, in the gift of Francis 1877 PO Directory for Lavendon Larken Soames, esq. and held by the Rev George Pochin Soames, M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. The rent of 9 acres of land and three cottages was left by an unknown donor for the repairs of the church. The principal landowners are W. C. L. Farrer, esq., B. S. Brookes, esq. And Lt.-Col. Chester. The soil is mixed; subsoil, stone and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,320 acres; rateable value £3,686; the population in 1871 was 916. Parish Clerk, Charles Johnson. ______ Letters through Newport Pagnell. WALL BOX cleared at 4.15 p.m. week days, & 10.10 a.m. Sundays. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Olney. SCHOOLS:- National Infant, Miss Sarah Denton, mistress. National Mixed, Isaac Wadsworth, master. CARRIER TO NORTHAMPTON. – Thomas Gammage, Sat. Brookes Benjn. Sculthorp, esq. The Grange Hilton Mrs Soames Rev. Geo. Pochin, M.A. [Rector], Rectory COMMERCIAL Atwood Henry, Horseshoe Battams Robert, farmer, Snelson farm Billing Mary & Son, farmers & butchers Billing Frederick, farmer, Castle Farm Brooks Benjamin, George Inn, & baker Church Henry, farmer & maltster Conquest John, mealman Cotton Reuben, boot maker Covington John, Green Man Davison Hephzibah, shopkeeper Hives James, carpenter Johnson Henry, farmer Johnson Robert, carpenter Lay George, wheelwright Lay Henry, mason Lay William, tailor Nicholls Benoni, shopkeeper & baker Osbon Joseph, blacksmith Parris William (Mrs.) & Son, farmers Parsons Frederick, farmer & miller, Lavendon Mills Pittham Edward, farmer Rainbow William, baker Robinson James, farmer Spencer John, farmer |