Description
Leonards, St, an ancient chapelry, formed into an ecclesiastical parish in I860, in Aston Clinton parish, Bucks, near the boundary with Herts, 3 miles ESE of Wendover, 4 S from the village of Aston Clinton, and 4 SW from Tring station on the main line of the L. & N.W.E. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Tring. Population, 147. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £250 with residence. The church is an ancient building of rubble, was once a chantry chapel to Missenden Abbey, was rebuilt after the civil war by General Wood, has been restored and beautified, and contains some old armour and many monuments and tablets.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
