SLAPTON, a parish, with a village, in the district of Leighton-Buzzard and county of Buckingham; 2 miles NE by N of Cheddington-Junction r. station, and 3 S by E of Leighton-Buzzard. Post town, Leighton-Buzzard. Acres, 840. Real property, £2,019. Pop., 325. Houses, 66. The property is divided among three. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £282. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is early English. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a parochial school, and charities £67.

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