Preston Bisset, Buckinghamshire

Description
Preston Bisset, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Ouse, 1 1/2 mile from the boundary with Oxfordshire, and 3 1/2 miles SSW of Buckingham station on the Banbury and Bletchley section of the L. & N.W.R., and has a post office under Buckingham; money order and telegraph office, Tingewick. The parish contains also the hamlet of Cowley, which is situated about 1 mile SE from the village, and comprises 1523 acres; population, 311. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford ; gross value, 422 with residence. The church, which stands on rising ground at the entrance of the village, is an ancient and beautiful building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower. It contains some ancient tombs and memorials, double sedilia, and three piscinae. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.