Emberton, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Emberton, a village and a parish in Bucks, on the river Ouse, 1½ mile S of Oiney station on the M.R., and 3.½ miles N of Newport Pagnell, with a post office under Newport Pagnell; money order and telegraph office, Oiney. Acreage, 1887; population of the civil parish, 505; of the ecclesiastical, 526. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £280 with residence. The church is Late Decorated English, with an embattled tower, and was restored in 1869. Petsoe Manor, formerly extra parochial, is now a parish and belongs to Lincoln College, Oxford.
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 | Emberton All Saints | |
| Hundred | Newport | |
| Poor Law union | Newport-Pagnell |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register of baptisms dates from the year 1659; marriages, 1674; burials, 1673.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The parish church of All Saints is a building in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: a new bell was presented in 1899 by Campbell G. Hulton esq.: the tower waa restored in 1914 at a cost of £180: there are piscina and sedilia in the south wall of the chancel: the stained east window, given by the Rev. O. Hulton, is a memorial to Thomas Fletcher esq.: the church also contains eleven other stained windows and a mural brass to John Morden, a former rector, c. 1410: the church was thoroughly restored in 1869: from the resemblance between the churches of Emberton and Olney they are supposed to be the work of the same architect: an organ, the gift of C. M. Tatham esq. was erected in 1899: in 1919 an alabaster figure of an angel, standing on a rosso pedestal, was set up as a memorial to those parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: there is a tablet in the chancel to the memory of the Rev. George Frederick Sams M.A. who was rector here for 43 years: new oak pews were installed in 1931, some by Kenneth Sams esq. in memory of his father, some by the Rev. C. B. Hulton and his brothers, in memory of Campbell Hulton esq. J.P.; some others in memory of Mrs. G. F. Sams, installed by her children: there are 250 sittings: there is a list of rectors from the year 1219.
Civil Registration
Emberton was in Newport Pagnell Registration District from 1837 to 1935
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Emberton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Emberton (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Emberton 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