Lathbury is a village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

[2] It is about 1 km north of Newport Pagnell, on the opposite side of the River Great Ouse, and about 8 km (5 miles) north-east of Central Milton Keynes.

The village name is an Old English language word, meaning 'fortification built with laths or beams'.

[3] On the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the advowson of Latbbury Abbey was given to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford.

[4] There was also once a 'free school' in a chapel in the churchyard, founded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, leased to the schoolmaster by Christ Church.