Description
Bledlow, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands in a romantic ravine, called the Glyde, on the verge of the county, 2 miles SW of Princes Risborough, and has a station on the G.W.R., and a post office under Princes Risborough (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. The parish includes also the ecclesiastical parish of Bledlow-Ridge. Acreage, 4169; population, 978. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £180. Patron, Lord Carrington. The church is Early English, was restored in 1876, and stands on the brink of the ravine at the village. The church at Bledlow-Ridge is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style, and was erected in 1868. The living is a vicarage; net yearly value, £130. Pitch Green and Routs Green are adjacent hamlets.
Bledlow, Buckinghamshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
