Great and Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire

Description
Kimble, Great and Little, a parish in Buckinghamshire.. Formerly two separate parishes, they were united by a Local Government Order in 1885, together with a part of Little-Hampden. The village of Great Kimble is on Icknield Street, a quarter of a mile SE from Little Kimble station on the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles S by W from Wendover. Post town, Tring; money order office, Princes Risborough; telegraph office, Butler's Cross, Ellesborough. Acreage, 3415; population, 565. The parish was anciently called Kunebel; is said to have got that name from Cunobelin or Cymbeline, the British king, whose sons made a brave standl here against the Romans, and it contains eminences called Belinus' castle, and Belinesbury, where Cunobelin is supposed to have had fbrtalices or residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Buckingham. The church is an ancient embattled building of flint and stone in the Decorated style, comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with an embattled western tower, and has a richly carved Norman font. Little Kimble is a village with a station on the Aylesbury branch of the G.W.R. on Icknield Street, contiguous to Great Kimble. Post town, Tring; money order office, Princes Risborough; telegraph office, Butler's Cross, Ellesborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £200. The church is a very ancient building of stone in the Decorated style. It contains some curious red outline mural paintings, now nearly obliterated. There is a Dissenting chapel. Marsh and Kimble Wick are-adjacent hamlets.