Lathbury
Lathbury is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[2] It is just to the north of Newport Pagnell.
Lathbury | |
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Lathbury Manor | |
Lathbury Lathbury Location within Buckinghamshire | |
Population | 156 (2011 Census)[1] |
OS grid reference | SP876452 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NEWPORT PAGNELL |
Postcode district | MK16 |
Dialling code | 01908 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
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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]
There is a grand manor house in Lathbury, which has descended through various families.[3] On the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the advowson of Latbbury Abbey was given to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford.[3]
Sir Henry Andrews was created a Baronet on 27 May 1661.[3] On his death in 1696, the baronetcy became extinct.[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 Church is dedicated to All Saints.
References
- UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Lathbury (E04001259)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- "Contact your Parish, Town or Community Council". Milton Keynes Council. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- 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.
- George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 203.