Castle Thorpe is a small parish, and village in the hundred union, county court district and rural deanery of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford, 5 miles east-north-east from Newport Pagnell, 3½ north from Stony Stratford, 11 from Northampton, and 3 north from Wolverton station on the London and North Western Railway. The church of St. Simon and St. Jude stands in an elevated position on the border of the old Castle yard, and is ancient, with very low square tower. The living is a chapelry, annexed to Hanslope, joint annual value £152 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held by the Rev. Mark Anthony Nicholson, M.A., of Hanslope, and Rev. John Carter Browne, M.A., is curate. Edward Hanslope Watts, Esq., is lord of the manor. The acreage is 1,380