HAVERSHAM, a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; on the river Ouse, near the Grand Junction canal, 2 miles NE of Wolverton r. station, and 3¼ WSW of Newport-Pagnell. Post town, Wolverton, Buckinghamshire. Acres, 1, 430. Real property, £2, 479. Pop., 288. Houses, 60. The property is divided among a few. The manor gave the title of Baron to the Thompsons, and passed to the Knightleys. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £195.* Patron, the Rev. A. B. Frazer. The church is of the 14th century, and good; and contains a fine altar tomb of Lady Clinton, of 1422.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))