CASTLE-THORPE, a parish in the hundred, of NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (N.N. E.) from Stony-Stratford, containing 348 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Hanslope, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Here was the ancient castle of the barony of Hanslope, the site of which exhibits traces of very extensive buildings; it was taken and demolished in 1217> by Fnlke de Brent, when it was garrisoned by its owner, William Manduit, one of the barons who were in arms against Henry III.