In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Drayton Beauchamp like this:
DRAYTON-BEAUCHAMP, a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; on the Wendover canal, at the boundary with Herts, near the Northwestern railway, 2 miles WNW of Tring. Post town, Tring. Acres, 1,874. Real property, £2, 743. Pop., 268. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Cheynes; and the moat of their residence remains. ...
Drayton-Cross-road and Drayton-Mead are meets for the Whaddon-Chase hounds and the Tring harriers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £275.* Patron, S. Jenney, Esq. The church is early English; has two fine brasses of the Cheynes, a large marble monument of Lord Newhaven, and a figured old east window; and is good. Charities, £8. Hooker was rector.
Drayton Beauchamp through time
Drayton Beauchamp is now part of Aylesbury Vale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Aylesbury Vale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Drayton Beauchamp itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Drayton Beauchamp, in Aylesbury Vale and Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3283
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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