Turville, Buckinghamshire

Description
Turville, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, on the Oxfordshire border of the county, 7 miles N from Henley station on the G.W.R., and 8 1/2 NW from Marlow. It has a post and telegraph office of the name of Turville Heath under Henley; money order office, Henley. Acreage, 2328; population, 468. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Turville Park is an ancient mansion, very pleasantly situated in a park of about 66 acres. Turville Court is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £92 with residence. The church is a small but ancient edifice of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, N transept, S porch, and an ivy-clad tower. It has some ancient monuments and a Norman font. At Turville Heath there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5