Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Brickhill, Great, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands near Watheng Street, the river Ouzel, and the Grand Junction Canal, 3 miles SSE of Fenny-Stratford, and 3 SE of Bletchley station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post office under Bletchley station; money order office, Fenny-Stratford; telegraph office, Little Brickhill. The parish comprises 2383 acres; population, 522. The manor, with Great Brickhill Manor House, belongs to Sir P. H. P. Duncombe, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £405 with residence. Patron, Sir P. H. P. Duncombe, Bart. The church, a building of stone in the Decorated style, contains monuments of the Duncombes, the Pauncefoots, and others. There are Baptist and Wes-leyan 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 | Brickhill St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Newport | |
| Poor Law union | Newport-Pagnell |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1558
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The parish church of St. Mary is a building of stone of the Early English and Decorated periods, consisting of chancel with side chapels, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a central tower with turret containing 6 very fine bells and a clock: in the chancel is a small piscina: there are numerous tablets to the Duncombe family, as well as to the families of Barton, Pauncefoot and Chase: the roofs of the church and chancel were heightened and the whole fabric thoroughly restored in 1867, chiefly at the cost of Sir Philip Duncombe Pauncefort-Duncombe bart. (d. 1890), in whose memory his widow presented the organ: there are 300 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Great Brickhill was in Newport Pagnell Registration District from 1837 to 1935 and Aylesbury Registration District from 1935 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Brickhill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brickhill, Great (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Brickhill 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