Creslow, Buckinghamshire

Description
Creslow, a parish in Bucks, 4 1/4 miles SSE of Winslow station on the L. & N.W.R., and 1 mile NE from Whitchurch. Post town, Aylesbury; money order and telegraph office, Whitchurch. Acreage, 887; population, 12. The manor was given in 1120 to the Knights Templars, went to the Knights of St. John, passed at the dissolution to the Crown, and was granted in 1653 to the regicide Cornelius Holland. Creslow contains but one dwelling £viz. the ancient manor-house, which includes portions of the time of Edward III., with extensive alterations of the time of Charles I., and is very picturesque. A chapel adjoined it in which many illustrious persons were interred in the times of the Knights of St John; and some remains of this, including a beautiful Transition Roman doorway, still exist. The Creslow pastures were feeding ground for cattle for the royal kitchen from the time of Elizabeth till that of Charles II., and are still notable for fertility.