Quainton, Buckinghamshire

Description
Quainton, Quainton Mallett, or Quinton, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands near Quainton Road station on the Metropolitan railway, and 6 1/2 miles NW of Aylesbury. It is large and widely scattered, was once a market-town, and has a post and money order office under Aylesbury; telegraph office, Waddesdon. The parish contains also the hamlets of Doddershall, Denham, Hogshaw, and Shipton Lee. Acreage, 5346; population, 885. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Doddershall Hall, an ancient mansion pleasantly situated in a park of 120 acres, has been the seat of the Pigott family for nearly 400 years. Quainton Hill commands a good view. The rocks include gritstone and iron-sand, and are famous for their fossils. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford ; net value, £450. The church is a fine building of stone of mixed architecture; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and N chapel, with W tower; and contains a figured screen, some good brasses, and several beautiful marble monuments. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, eight almshouses with £220 a year, and charities belonging to this parish and the adjoining parish of Grendon worth over £400 a year. Brett, a translator of the Bible, was rector.