Description
Chinnor, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the verge of the county, under the Chiltern Hills, near Icknield Street, 5 1/2 miles SE of Thame, and has a station on the G.W.R., and a post and money order office under Tetsworth; telegraph office, Lewknor. It was burnt by Prince Rupert on the morning of the Battle of Chalgrove. The parish includes also the liberty of Henton. Acreage, 2712; population, 1247. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £398 with residence. The church is Decorated English, and contains brasses of the 14th century and paintings by Thornhill. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
