Cllr Pearl Lewis

Luffield Abbey is the area at the very north of Buckinghamshire. The ward comprises the villages of Akeley, Maids Moreton, Foscott, Leckhamstead, Beachampton, Stowe, Thornton, Lillingstone Lovell, and Lillingstone Dayrell and Luffield Abbey. There are over 900 households, and an electorate of nearly 2000.

Maids Moreton - Church of St Edmunds

The ward borders Northamptonshire in the north and actually runs through the middle of Silverstone race track – hence the adoption of Luffield as the name for a corner on the track.

Little information remains of the ancient abbey from which the village takes its name though the name ‘Luffield’ is Anglo Saxon and means ‘Lufa’s field’. There was no trace of the ancient abbey in a land survey conducted in 1732. (source: wikipedia)

This was written about Luffield Abbey in approximately 1870-72 from John Marius Wilson’s Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:

“LUFFIELD ABBEY – an extra-parochial tract in the district of Buckingham, and counties of Buckingham and Northampton; near Whittlebury-forest, 5½ miles NNW of Buckingham. Acres, 510. Pop., 18. Houses, 3. A Benedictine priory was founded here, in 1124, by Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester; was given, by Henry VII., to the abbot of Westminster; and passed to the Throckmortons and the Duke of Buckingham. No remains of the edifice now exist.” (source: www.visionofbritain.org.uk)