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THE NEWPORT PAGNELL HISTORIANS
In 2009 several individuals actively engaged in research on various aspects of the town’s history formed a group led by Ray Bailey an enthusiastic photographer of the local scene. Ray who had commenced recording the town and surrounding areas in the 1950s sadly Ray passed away in 2011 and the study of his research in particular the recording of the town’s old cemetery may never be completed. Another member Maurice Barratt, passed away in 2015, he was a very keen photographer and carried out a complete photographic record of the older parts of the town. Maurice also wrote historical articles for local magazines. The three remaining members are; Dennis Mynard, local Archaeologist, Historian, and former Senior Archaeologist with Milton Keynes Development Corporation. In the 1960s Dennis together with Ray Bailey as members of the Wolverton and District Archaeological and Historical Society commenced the photographic recording of the North Bucks scene, before the construction of Milton Keynes. Over the last twenty years he has also carried out extensive documentary research into thousands of the Title Deeds of the towns older properties. Paul Woodfield, Architectural Historian and Archaeologist former head of Building Conservation with Milton Keyes Development Corporation, who surveyed recorded Newport Pagnell’s older buildings for listing by English Heritage and Milton Keynes Council. |
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Church of Peter & Paul - Newport Pagnell
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The 1899 Ordnance Survey map of Newport Pagnell.
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Click map to zoom into the (pdf)
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NEWPORT PAGNELL PROPERTY DEEDS COMPILED BY DENNIS C MYNARD INTRODUCTION This archive was assembled from 1994 to 2005 largely from Collections of Deeds deposited in the Buckinghamshire County Record Office at Aylesbury, Private Collections, and Published Sources. A few Deeds in the Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Norfolk Record Offices have also been transcribed and added to the Archive. Many old Title Deeds to properties in the town were deposited on loan in the County Record Office at Aylesbury, by the town’s principal Solicitors W.B. and W.R. Bull, and their successors Bull, Astley and Harding. Catherine Bull, the last member of the Bull family directed connected with the company, and Guy Harding of Bull, Astley and Harding readily gave permission for me to borrow Deeds, so that I could work on them at home. It was agreed with the then Archivist Hugh Hanley that I should borrow 50 bundles at a time. In 1997 I moved to Norfolk and it was then confirmed that the arrangement to borrow deeds should continue. The Bull deeds have mostly, but not all, been transcribed, the properties identified, and, as far as possible the transcripts sorted into areas of the town and individual street order. In addition to the Bull Deeds I have worked on other collections in the Record Office, in Solicitors offices, and in Private Collections. The limited production of this Archive in CD form places information on the history of many of the town’s properties and families in a readily accessible form for local researchers. Copies of the CD have been placed in the Bucks County Record Office, and the Local Studies Centre in Milton Keynes Library. All transcriptions, interpretations and layout are my work and may be reproduced for Research purposes only, and with full acknowledgement. © Dennis C Mynard 2011 |
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