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The London and Birmingham Railway experienced construction delays with the Wolverton Viaduct and the Kilosby Tunnel. The directors were anxious to open the line for Queen Victoria;s coronation in the Spring of 1838 and their solution was to detrain passengers at a place called Denbigh Hall and take them by road to Rugby. Denbigh Hall was no more than a roadside inn which became, for a few months in 1838, an unlikely terminus.

The Woodville family came to prominence in 1464 with the surprising marriage of Elizabeth Woodville to Edward IV. Since that […]

Reprint of an 1819 publication.

Priests were not always amenable characters. One vicar of Haversham murdered another man, as did the Prior of Tickford Abbey in Newport Pagnell.

This booklet tells the detailed stories of three strong-minded  men who came into local parishes and, each in their own way, created difficulties. They were, William Rice of Simpson, Oliver Partridge Henly of Stony Stratford and Allan Newman Guest of St James, New Bradwell.

Before Milton Keynes was announced in 1967 the area was mostly rural with many villages which had their own history and identity. Their history is told in four volumes, which have been collected in this box set.