Great Woolstone, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Woolstone, Great, a village and a parish in Bucks, 3 miles N from Fenny Stratford station on the Bletchley and Bedford line of the L. & N.W.R., and 3½ S from Newport Pagnell. The Grand Junction Canal passes through the parish, and the river Ousel separates it from Milton Keynes. Post town, Bletchley Station; money order and telegraph office, Fenny Stratford. Acreage, 514; population of the civil parish, 80; of the ecclesiastical, with Little Woolstone, 163. The manor belongs to the Prescott-Westcar family. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Little Woolstone, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value, £192 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church, rebuilt in 1839, is a small building in the Tudor style.
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 | Woolstone Holy Trinity | |
| 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 1538.
Churches
Church of England
The Holy Trinity (parish church)
The church of the Holy Trinity, a small building of stone, in the Tudor style, rebuilt in 1839, consisting of chancel and nave and a bellcote containing one bell: the font is Norman and was brought from St. Cuthbert's, Bedford: there are 70 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Great Woolstone was in Newport Pagnell Registration District from 1837 to 1934
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Woolstone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woolstone, Great (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Woolstone 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