Woughton on the Green, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Woughton-on-the Green, a parish, with a village, built round a green of about 20 acres, in Bucks, on the river Ousel and the Grand Junction Canal, 2 miles N of Fenny Stratford station, and 3 from Bletchley station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Bletchley Station; money order and telegraph office, Fenny Stratford. Acreage, 1224; population, —08. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Woughton House is pleasantly situated in a park of 43 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £125 with residence. The church is in the Decorated style. 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 | Woughton-on-the-Green St. Mary | |
Hundred | Newport | |
Poor Law union | Newport-Pagnell |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
Woughton on the Green was in Newport Pagnell Registration District from 1837 to 1935
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Woughton on the Green from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woughton-on-the-Green (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Woughton on the Green 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