Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

Description
Chalfont St Peter, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands on the Misbourne rivulet, 5 miles SSE of Amersham, and 5 SW from Rickmansworth stations on the L. & N.W.R. and Metropolitan railway. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Gerrard's Cross (R.S.O.) The parish comprises 4758 acres; population of the civil parish, 1509 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1155. Chalfont House was built by General Churchill, the brother-in-law of Horace Walpole; owed much of its original character to Walpole's taste; but has been much altered and improved. A house called the Grange is built upon the foundations of what was for some time the residence of Judge Jeffreys. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £466 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is a brick edifice of 1726, highly improved by Street in 1854; and contains several good brasses. The vicarage of Gerrard's Cross is a separate benefice. There is a chapel of ease at Horn Hill, erected in 1866, and a Baptist chapel at Gold Hill, erected in 1774.