Description
Ashendon, a parish in Bucks. The parish is near the Julian way, 9 miles W of Aylesbury, and 4 1/2 SW from Quainton Road station on the L. & N.W.R., and includes the hamlet of Pollicot. Post town, Thame; money order and telegraph office, Brill. Acreage, 2128; population of the civil parish, 199; of the ecclesiastical, 336. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Dorton, in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £180, in the gift of Earl Temple. The church contains the figure of a crusader, and is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. The font is either Norman or Saxon.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
