St Leonard's Church , Little Linford, UK
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Norfolk12
N 52° 05.385 W 000° 46.014
30U E 652987 N 5773373
A gem of a church was part of the Little Linford estate,Beware of the wandering peacocks.
Waymark Code: WM314K
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/23/2008
Views: 18
The name Linford is thought to derive from the crossing point over the River Ouse which now separates Great Linford from Little Linford to the north, where there were linden trees. It appears in the Domesday Book as Linforde.
LITTLE LINFORD, in the hundred and deanery of Newport, lies about three miles to the north-west of Newport-Pagnell. The manor was anciently in the Pagnells, from whom it passed, by female heirs, to the families of Somery, Botetort, Burnell and Bermingham. Having been purchased of the last-mentioned family, by the Botelers, it passed with Great Linford, till about the year 1658, when it was purchased of the Thompsons, by Kilpin and others, and by them sold to an ancestor of the present proprietor, the Rev. Primat Knapp, who is patron of the curacy.
The church of Little Linford, now a separate parish, was formerly a chapel of ease to Newport-Pagnell, and was given by the Pagnells to Tickford Priory. The inhabitants of Little Linford bury their dead at Haversham, excepting the family of the lord of the manor, for whom there are some monuments in the church.
Church Name: St leonard
Church In Use (even only just occassionally): yes
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Date Church Built: Not listed
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