Description
Drayton Beauchamp, a village and a parish in Bucks, on the Wendover Canal, at the boundary with Herts, near the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles WNW of Trine. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Tring. Acreage, 1319; population, 175. Drayton Lodge is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £180 with residence. The church is Early English, has two fine brasses of the Cheynes, a large marble monument of Lord Newhaven, and a figured old east window, and is good. Dr Hooker, author of the " Ecclesiastical Polity," was rector.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
