Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Ravenstone is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1568
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Independent/Congregational.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Stoke Goldington with Gayhurst
- Weston Underwood
- Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire
- Tyringham with Filgrave
- Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire
- Horton, Northamptonshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RAVENSTONE, a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands 1 mile S of the boundary with Northamptonshire, and 3 W of Olney r. station; and has a postal wall-box under Newport-Paguell.
The parish comprises 2, 230 acres. Real property, £2, 182. Pop., 400. Houses, 103. The property is divided between two; and the manor belongs to G. Finch, Esq. A black priory was founded here in l246, and was given to Cardinal Wolsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £106. Patron, G. Finch, Esq. The church is Norman, in good condition; and contains a very fine monument of Lord Chancellor Finch. There are an endowed school with £150 a year, and alms-houses with £282.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Ravenstone Parish Registers 1568 to 1812
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Buckinghamshire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Newport Pagnell
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Pre-1845 – Lincoln, Post-1844 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Newport
- Poor Law Union: Newport Pagnell
- Hundred: Newport
- Province: Canterbury