Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire

Description
Lillingstone Dayrell, a parish in Buckinghamshire, near the boundary with Northamptonshire, 4 1/2 miles N of Buckingham station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Buckingham; money order office, Buckingham; telegraph office, Whittlebury. Acreage, 1873; population of the civil parish, 273; of the ecclesiastical, 280. The manor, which belonged from the Conquest up to a recent period to the Dayrell family, belongs now to the Robarts family, and stands in an extensive park. Lillingstone House, a quadrangular mansion surrounded by a park of about 60 acres, and Tile House, a mansion in the Late Tudor style, are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £150 with residence. The church is ancient but good, consists of nave, N and S aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower, and contains brasses and tombs of the Dayrells from 1481.