About Astwood
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Astwood is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, ceremonial Buckinghamshire, on the border with Bedfordshire. Astwood sits halfway between the towns of Newport Pagnell and Bedford. The village name is Anglo Saxon and means Eastern Wood. The churchyard of the parish church of St Peter is considered by some as being one of the prettiest in the county. Most of the older buildings in the village have thatched roofs making for a quaint rural setting.
In 1086 at the time of the Domesday Survey there is no mention of Astwood by name, but it is probable that Astwood Bury Manor may be included in the unnamed manor which William Fitz Ansculf then held in Moulsoe Hundred. He was lord of Newport Pagnell, head of the honour of Newport Pagnell, part of barony of Dudley, of which Astwood Bury was held circa 1240 with Little Crawley. The dependents of Astwood Bury on the manor of Newport Pagnell continued into the 18th century.
The Parish Church of St Peter, stands at west end of the village and has walls of stone rubble, earlier in the 20th century the roofs were covered with lead except those of the chancel and porch which were tiled, but during the Second World War the church was damaged by bombs and the old south porch was almost destroyed and the roof was badly damaged. This damage has now been repaired. The north, south and east walls of the Nave are probably of late 12th or early 13th century date, but only reused stones in the chancel arch and inside the tower show detail of that period. The chancel was rebuilt again in the 15th century, and the clearstory was added to the nave in the 16th century when the south porch was rebuilt for the first time. The whole church was restored in the nineteenth century.
There are three bells, two were by John Walgrave, these are from the early 15th century, and the third was by James Keene in 1631. There is a 17th century chest in the south aisle with three carved panels in front. The 14th century font has an octagonal bowl chamfered at the bottom, with a square stem which is carved with various designs including a Stafford knot on the south side. There is a monument in the chancel on the north wall to Samuel Cranmer, who was a collateral descendant of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1640, and to Mary (Wood) his second wife. In the south-east window sill of the chancel there is a piscina with a plain circular basin, probably of the 14th century.