Padbury, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Padbury, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire. The village stands on an eminence, near the river Ouse, and near the Banbury and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R., on which it has a station, 2½ miles SSE of Buckingham, and has a bridge over the Ouse, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Buckingham. The parish comprises 2029 acres; population, 490. Lace-making is carried on to a small extent. The manor belongs to All Souls College, Oxford. A skirmish was fought here in 1643 between the Royalists under Sir C. Lucas and the Parliamentary troops under Col. Middleton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £114. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a low tower. The chancel was restored in 1882 from designs by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott, R.A. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Padbury St. Matthew | |
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 1538.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary the Virgin or St. Matthew (parish church)
The church of St. Mary the Virgin or St. Matthew is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a low embattled western tower containing 6 bells, rehung in 1879: the chancel was restored in 1882, the interior being refitted with choir stalls and communion rails of oak, and new chancel steps of black and white marble laid down at a total cost of £1,075; the massive oak communion table bears the names of the 9 donors and the date is 1634: the communion plate includes a silver chalice with cover, dated 1574, and a silver paten, with the hallmark of a date between 1618 and 1638, presented in 1876 by the wife of the then vicar: in 1897 the porch was rebuilt, and the roof of the tower, nave and aisle repaired, at a cost of £800: in 1937 a memorial window was placed in the chancel to the Rev. Ernest Carmichael Carmichael; vicar of this parish, 1911 to 1919; a new oak pulpit was presented in 1937 in memory of Caroline Kate Potter by her sister, Nurse Potter: there are 300 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Padbury was in Buckingham Registration District from 1837 to 1935
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Padbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Padbury (St. Matthew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Padbury 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