CROWLEY (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (E. by N,) from Newport-Pagnell, containing 775 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £27. 10., and in the patronage of Miss Buncombe. The church is dedicated to St. Firmin, to whom a monastery is mentioned in Domesday-book as having been founded here before the time of Edward the Confessor, which was in existence after the Conquest.