Shalstone, Buckinghamshire

Description
Shalstone or Shaldestone-with-Oldwick, a parish, with a village, in Buckinghamshire, 4 miles WNW of Buckingham, and 1 1/2 mile NE of Fulwell and Westbury station on the Banbury and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Buckingham; telegraph office, Tingewick. Acreage, with Oldwick, 1383; population, 172. The manor house is the seat of the Fitzgeralds, who are lords of the manor and sole landowners. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £177 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1828, and restored in 1862 under the superintendence of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott, R.A.,and a vestry and organ chamber were added in 1889 under the superintendence of his son. It is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower.