Description
Chetwode, a parish in Buckinghamshire, on the verge of the county, 3 1/4 miles from Fulwell and Westbury station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 SW of Buckingham. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Buckingham. Acreage, 1171; population, 170. The manor belonged to a Chetwode before the Conquest, and is still held by his descendants. An Augustinian priory was founded here in 1244. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Barton-Hartshorn, in the diocese of Oxford. The church belonged to the priory, and has a very fine Early English chancel, and some of the oldest stained glass in England. Dean Chetwode was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
