Key Dates in Drayton Parslow’s History

Centuries
11th	1086	Domesday Book. Radulf Passaqua held land in “Draintone”
13th	1232	William of Gaddesden presented as first Rector
14th	1302	First record of Passelewe linked with Drayton in the name of the village
	1337	Black Death. Nicholas Passelewe (Sheriff of Buckinghamshire) died with all his tenants save one man in Mursley.
14th-15th		Present church building under construction
16th	1563	Queen Elizabeth granted the manors of Drayton Parslow, Mursley and Salden to her cousin and Chancellor, Sir John Fortescue, for a consideration of £423.2s.4d
		Sir John built a substantial mansion at Salden
17th	1603	James 1 and his family entertained at Salden
	1620s	Richard Chandler started a bell foundry
18th	1730s	Salden House demolished
	1751	Thomas Whorwood, descended from Sir John Fortescue, buried in the chancel at Drayton
	1750s	John Lord, Rector, built a new rectory and opened a home for those of “troubled or unsound mind”
19th	1820s	Robert, Lord Carrington, became Lord of the Manor
	1840s	Baptist Chapel built
	1840s	Methodist Chapel built – the building now known as Carrington Hall.
	1860s	Spurrell and his widow extended and improved the church
	1878	Board School opened
20th	1912	A new, larger Primitive Methodist Chapel opened in Main Road.
	1940s	Land at Prospect Farm commandeered as part of the Bletchley Park ‘Enigma’ operations.
	1968-71	Threat of Third London Airport
	1977-78	Drayton School was extended into what had been the Teacher’s House (self-help scheme).
	1979-80	Sports clubhouse built next to the cricket field (largely self-help)
	1979-80	Second threat of Third London Airport
21st	2000	Church restoration began. The exterior Totternhoe Clunch (a soft and crumbling stone) was replaced by a much more durable hard Bath stone.
	2002	Greenacre Hall (new village hall) opened. It was named after Charlie Greenacre, an old Drayton resident who had donated a substantial sum to the village.
	2004	Part of Drayton was designated a conservation area.