Today Tickford Abbey is a residental care home on the northern edge of Tickford End, that part of Newport Pagnell that lies on the E bank of the river Great Ouse. The present house is a square 18thc building in substantial grounds were remains of the former priory have been found. Behind the house, to the NE of it, is a walled garden, and inside this at the W end carved stones from the priory have been assembled in a rectancular frame built into the wall. Most are dogtooth (i.e. early 13thc) but three stones are carved with elaborate point-to-point chevron, and these are described below.

Tickford End was held by William fitzAnsculf in 1086, and was assessed at 5 hides, with 2 carucates of land in demesne besides. The manor also included meadow for 5 ploughs and woodland for 50 pigs. The manot passed to Fulk Paynel at some time around 1100, and it was he who founded the priory as a Cluniac cell of the Abbey of Marmoutier in Tours. The account in VCH gives details of the friction between the Abbots of Marmoutier and Bishops of Lincoln over the right of appointment of priors, especially during the 13thc.

Similar, though not identical, variations on the point-to-point chevron treatment are relatively common in Buckinghamshire and neighbouring counties in the later part of the 12thc.