LINSLADE, a parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE, county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Leighton-Buzzard, containing 370 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of A. Corbett, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In the thirteenth century this place was noted for the resort of pilgrims, and frequent processions, to a holy well here, until they were prohibited, in 1299, by Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, who cited the vicar to appear in his court, for having encouraged these pilgrimages to his own emolument. A market on Thursday, and a fair, to be held for eight days at Lady-day, were granted, in 1251, to William de Beauchamp.