Worminghall, Buckinghamshire

Description
Worminghall, a parish, with a village, in Buckinghamshire, 4 1/2 miles WNW of Thame, and 2 1/4 from Tiddington station on the Wycombe, Thame, and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., with a post and money order office under Thame; telegraph office, Wheatley. Acreage, 1510; population, 269. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The village is an ancient place, and formerly had a market and a fair. The manor, with all the land, belongs to Viscount Clifden. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £108 with residence. Patron, Viscount Clifden. The church is a small but ancient building of stone in mixed styles, originally Norman, and still having some Norman portions, but now chiefly in the Perpendicular style. It has some ancient memorials and a font of the 13th century. There are ten endowed almshouses and some small charities.