Sherington, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Sherington, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 2 miles NNE of Newport Pagnell station on the Wolverton and Newport Pagnell branch of the L. & N.W.R., was known at Domesday as Seritone, and has a post and money order office under Newport Pagnell; telegraph office, Newport Pagnell. The parish comprises 1805 acres; population, 566. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £450. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church stands on an eminence, and is a building of stone chiefly in the Decorated style consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a central tower and spire, witli five bells. The interior was damaged by the Puritan soldiers, who were encamped here when on their way to Naseby. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels and some small charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Sherrington St. Laud | |
Hundred | Newport | |
Poor Law union | Newport-Pagnell |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1698.
Churches
Church of England
St. Laud the Martyr (parish church)
The church of St. Laud the Martyr, seated on an eminence, is an edifice of stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch with parvise, and a central tower containing 5 bells and a clock: the nave arcades, one Early Decorated and the other of a iater period, have circular pillars on the north and octagonal on the south side, in both cases with moulded capitals: the tower walls are of the 12th century, with arches into the chancel and nave of the 13th century: the large west window is chiefly of the 15th century: the early 15th century font is noteworthy: in the north-east buttress of the tower is a Decorated window pierced through and looking towards the altar: there is a stone tablet in memory of 11 men of this parish who lost their lives in the Great War, 1914-18: on the handle of the porch door are the arms of Dr. William Barrow, rector 1406, and afterwards bishop of Bangor and Carlisle: the church was restored in 1870 at a cost of £1,200, and affords 300 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Sherington was in Newport Pagnell Registration District from 1837 to 1935
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sherington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sherrington (St. Laud))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sherington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online