Newport-Pagnell

Newport-Pagnell, a market-town of Buckinghamshire, at the influx of the Ousel to the Ouse, 56 miles by rail NNW. of London. Named from the Paganels, who owned the manor in the days of Rufus, it was taken by Essex in 1643, and held two years later by Sir Samuel Luke, the prototype of Butler's 'Hudibras.' The fine parish church, restored by Street in 1858, is the principal edifice; lace-making has declined. Pop. of parish, 3686. See its History by Staines (1842).