RAVENSTONE, a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands 1 mile S of the boundary with Northamptonshire, and 3 W of Olney r. station; and has a postal wall-box under Newport-Paguell. The parish comprises 2, 230 acres. Real property, £2, 182. Pop., 400. Houses, 103. The property is divided between two; and the manor belongs to G. Finch, Esq. A black priory was founded here in l246, and was given to Cardinal Wolsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £106.* Patron, G. Finch, Esq. The church is Norman, in good condition; and contains a very fine monument of Lord Chancellor Finch. There are an endowed school with £150 a year, and alms-houses with £282.

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