Latimer, Buckinghamshire

Description
Latimer, an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1868 out of the civil parish of Chesham, partly in Buckinghamshire and partly in Hertfordshire, on the river Chess, adjacent to Herts, 3 1/2 miles SE from Chesham, 3 1/4 NE from Amersham, and 1 mile N from Chalfont Road station on the Metropolitan railway. It has a post and telegraph office under Chesham (R.S.O.); money order office, Chesham. Population, with Flaunden, 351. Latimer House, a mansion of red brick in the Elizabethan style, standing in a well-timbered park of 800 acres, is the seat of Lord Chesham, who is sole landowner. The manor belonged to the Latimers, passed to the Nevilles, the Grevilles, and the Sandys, and belongs now to Lord Chesham. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Flaunden Herts, in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £220 with residence. Patron, Lord Chesham. The church, rebuilt in 1867, is a building in the Gothic style.