Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Leckhampstead, a parish in Buckinghamshire, lying on an affluent of the river Ouse, adjacent to the Buckingham Canal and to the boundary with Northamptonshire, 3¾ miles NE by N of Buckingham station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Buckingham; money order and telegraph office, Deanshanger. Acreage, 2571; population, 302. The manor belongs to the Beanclerk family; about 200 acres of the land is under wood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £370 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone in the Early English style, consists of nave, N aisle, S porch, and chancel with W tower, and contains three sedilia, a piscina, an effigies of a knight, and a brass of 1506.
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 | Leckhampstead St. Mary | |
Hundred | Buckingham | |
Poor Law union | Buckingham |
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 church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells, 3 of which were added in 1897, viz. a Jubilee bell, one to commemorate the 50th year of the Medical and Benefit Club, and one given by the children of the parish to the rector: the church has a 12th century arcade separating the north aisle from the nave: the north and south doorways are of tbe same date: a reredos of opus tectile was presented by Capt. Drummond as a memorial to the Rev. Heneage Drummond M.A.. rector here 1835-83: there are three sedilia and a piscina, and a slab wilh effigies in brass of three children and a Latin inscription to Reginald Tylney esq. who died in 1506: in the north aisle is a full-length recumbent figure of a knight in armour: the octagonal font has panelled sides adorned with a variety of carved figures: a new organ was erected in 1886 by the rector and parishioners; this was restored in 1937: there are 258 sittings. A lych-gate was erected in memory of the six parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Leckhampstead was in Buckingham Registration District from 1837 to 1935
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Leckhampstead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Leckhampstead (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Leckhampstead 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