Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire

Description
Weston Turville, a parish in Bucks, 3 miles SE of Aylesbury, where there are stations on the G.W.R. and L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Tring; money order and telegraph office, Aston Clinton. Acreage, 2323; population, 791. There are four manors, and the chief one belonged formerly to the Duchy of Lancaster, and was sold to the Eldridge family. A reservoir of the Grand Junction Canal, covering nearly 60 acres, is here. Straw-plaiting is largely carried on, and the Aylesbury breed of ducks is extensively reared, more than 25,000 birds being annually sent to London. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £476 with residence. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church is an ancient and interesting building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, N and S porches, and an embattled western tower with hexagonal turret. There is a Baptist chapel.