Penn, Staffordshire

Description
Penn, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands on an eminence, 2 1/2 miles NE of Loudwater station on the Maidenhead and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., 4 SW of Amersham, and 4 NE of Wycombe ; presents a picturesque appearance, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Amersham. The parish contains also the hamlets of Forty Green and Knocklock's or Knotty Green, and part of the ecclesiastical parish of Penn Street. Acreage, 3992; population of the civil parish, 1021; of the ecclesiastical, 413. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to Earl Howe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £320 with residence. Patron, Earl Howe. The church is an ancient building of flint and brick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, N and S porches, and a massive western tower. It contains monuments of the Penns and the Curzons. The tower commands a view over portions of twelve counties. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, also a reading-room and institute.