The parish of Woburn has an area of 3,446 acres, of which about 2,000 are permanent grass and about 700 arable land. The county is thickly wooded, the plantations covering about 700 acres. The soil is Lower Greensand, with a subsoil of gravel, and the chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, peas and beans.
The ground rises from 300 ft. in the north of the parish to 500 ft. in the south. The village is situated midway on ground rising from 370 ft. to 386 ft., and occupies both sides of the road from Leighton Buzzard to Newport Pagnell. It is neat and clean in appearance and is now well lighted by gas; but in the early part of the 19th century the lighting was very bad, and Stephen Dodd, writing in 1818, complains of the lack of lamps.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp457-462
https://www.woburnparishchurch.co.uk/