Little Linford, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Linford, Little, a parish in Bucks, on the river Ouse, over which there is a bridge of a single arch, and near Wol-verton station on the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles W of Newport Pagnell. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wolverton. Acreage, 7 27; population, 70. The manor, with Linford Hall, belongs to the Knapp family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £146. The church, a plain but ancient building of stone, has some memorials of the Knapps. The bell-tower is about 1000 years old; one of the bells is 400 years old, and the other 500.
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 | Little Linford St. Leonard | |
| 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 1757.
Churches
Church of England
St. Leonard (parish church)
The church of St. Leonard is a small and plain stone building, partly Saxon and partly Norman, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, a north porch and a turret containing 2 bells, of the early 14th and late 15th centuries: the chancel was rebuilt by M. G. S. Knapp esq. (d. 1896) and the north aisle was added by A. J. Knapp and M. S. Knapp esqrs.: in the nave is a marble tablet to the eldest son of Doctor Lee, physician to King George II. and to John Knapp, d. 1747; and there are other tablets and brasses to the Knapp family: by the side altar is a brass tablet in memory of seven men of the parish who served in the Great War, 1914-18: the church affords about 100 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Little Linford was in Newport Pagnell Registration District from 1837 to 1934
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Little Linford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Linford, Little (St. Leonard))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Little Linford 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