Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire

Description
Long Crendon, a large parish in Buckinghamshire, on the river Thame, adjacent to the boundary with Oxfordshire, 3 miles N from Thame station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 SE from Brill. It has a post and money order office under Thame; telegraph office, Thame. Acreage, 3348; population, 1187. The village, which consists chiefly of one long main street, has numerous picturesque old houses, one of which, known as Staple Hall, dates from a period earlier than the reign of Henry VII. Notley Abbey was founded in 1162 by William Giffard, second Earl of Buckingham, and the remains of it are now included in a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £250 with residence. The church, a fine cruciform building in the Early English and Decorated styles, has an Early Perpendicular font, a rose window erected and filled with stained glass in 1890, and some interesting monuments. There are also Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.