LAVENDON, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N.E.) from Olney,
containing 613 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Cold Brayfield,
in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 6. Sir G. Noel,
Bart, was patron in 1817. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. An abbey of Premonstratensian canons was
ounded, in the reign of Henry II., by John de Bidun,
and dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the revenue of
which, at the dissolution, was valued at £79 13 8.
Here was formerly a market on Tuesday, granted to
Paulinus Peyore, in 1248, but now disused: a .fair is
held on the Tuesday before Easter.