GAYHURST, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N.W.) from Newport-
Pagnell, containing, with the extra-parochial liberty of
Gorefields, 90 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
united in 1736 with that of Stoke-Goldington, in the
archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £6. 0. 2., and in the patronage
of Miss Anne Barbara Wrighte. The church,
dedicated to St. Peter, was completed in 1728, by means
of a sum of money bequeathed for that purpose by Mr.
Wrighte, lord of the manor. The river Ouse runs
through the parish, and there is a chalybeate spring in
the neighbourhood.