Luffield Abbey, Buckinghamshire

Historical Description

Luffield Abbey, formerly an extra-parochial tract, now a parish in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire, near Whittlebury Forest, 6½ miles NNW of Buckingham. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Towcester. Acreage, 216; population, 7. A Benedictine priory was founded. herein 1124 by Robert Ie Rossu, Earl of Leicester; was given by Henry VII. to the Abbot of Westminster; and passed to the Throckmortons and the Duke of Buckingham. No remains of the edifice now exist.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Luffield Abbey was in Buckingham Registration District from 1844 to 1935

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Luffield Abbey from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Luffield-Abbey)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:

• Bucks Herald
• South Bucks Free Press, Wycombe and Maidenhead Journal
• Croydon's Weekly Standard

Visitations Heraldic

A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online