AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



tioned in a privilege of Pope Alexander III. 1 The 

 monastery seems to have claimed the church of Weston 

 Turville and both the chapels of Lee and Broughton 

 at this time, but probably they never obtained any of 

 them except the chapel of Lee."* The chapel of 

 Broughton is again mentioned in 1535, amongst the 

 chapels appendant to the church of Bierton, belonging 

 to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln." It was then 

 worth 20 a year. 1 " It was. however, not mentioned 

 in the grant of the church of Bierton, nor in the 

 ordination of the vicarage, so that it seems doubtful 

 whether it was ever separated from its mother church 

 of Weston Turv.lle. 



There is a Baptist chapel, built in 1831, and a 

 Wesleyan chapel, built in 1877, both at Bierton. 



Charity of William Hill, founded 

 CHARITIES by will, 1723, is endowed with 

 633. 3 r. 32 p. at Burcott in this 

 parish, let at 160 a year, to be applied, as to 16, 

 in providing eight coats, distribution of money to 

 poor not receiving relief and attending sacrament in 

 Wendover, Bierton, Buckland, Marsworth, Oving, 

 and Thornborough, the residue for education, ap- 

 prenticing, or other charitable purposes in Wendover 

 and Bierton. In 1907 S was expended in coats to 

 the six parishes, 8 in sacrament money, annuity of 

 6 to the vicars of Bierton and Wendover, 40 to 

 the Bierton Schools, 40 to the Wendover Schools, 

 and /,; in apprenticing. 



The Feoffees Charity, mentioned in the Parlia- 

 mentary returns of 1786 a* founded by a donor un- 



BUCKLAND 



known, is endowed with 15 acres, let in allotments, 

 producing 36 a year, a house let at 4 a year, and 

 a rent-charge of i 9/. issuing out of Dove House 

 Close, now belonging to Mr. Thomas Bell. 



By an order of the Charity Commissioners of 21 

 April 1899, made under the Local Government Act, 

 1 894., the income was apportioned between the church 

 and the poor. In 1907, out of the net income, 10 

 was paid to the churchwardens, and 17 IO/. was 

 distributed in 46 doles at ~s. 6d. each, and one at ,/. 



Charity of Samuel Bosse. Under this title a further 

 annuity of z is paid out of Dove House Close, which 

 is distributed in sixpences. 



A Mr. Allen, at a date unknown, gave a sum of 

 100 consols, the dividends to be distributed in best 

 bread on Christmas and Easter Day for ever. The 

 stock is held by the official trustees. 



In 1862 Archdeacon T. Hill by deed gave 6 a 

 year for the distribution of Bibles and New Testaments 

 and for education of poor children in this parish and 

 in Wendover. 



The charity of William Reeve, comprised in an 

 indenture, bearing date 12 October 18 Charles II, is 

 regulated by scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 

 21 August 1891. The trust estate consists of two 

 cottages and gardens let at 8 lot. a year, and 

 I a. 3 r. 32 p. of land in Broughton, let at /,8 a year, 

 and 6$ ji. \d. consols, with the official trustees, 

 producing yearly l I2/. 4^. arising from accumula- 

 tions of income. In 1907 the sum of 14. was 

 expended in doles. 



BUCKLAND 



Buckland is a small parish lying on the Hertford- 

 shire border. It is remarkably long and narrow in 

 shape, and rises towards the south to the Chiltern 

 Hills. There are 534$ acres of arable land and 380^ 

 acres laid down in permanent grass. 1 The subsoil is 

 Upper Greensand and Gault,' and the surface soil red 

 and white clay. The land in the northern part of the 

 parish is between 300 ft. and 400 ft. above the 

 Ordnance datum * ; it rises considerably in the south, 

 the highest point being over 800 ft. near North Hill, 

 and the hamlet of Buckland Common is over 600 ft. 

 above the Ordnance datum. 4 The parish is twice 

 crossed by the Grand Junction Canal, by the Aylesbury 

 Branch in the north and by the Wendover Branch in 

 the south ; there is a stream running through the 

 village and an old homestead moat near Moat Farm, 

 but the buildings which it surrounded have dis- 

 appeared. The chief road crossing Buckland parish 

 is Akeman Street, but the village lies along a branch 

 road, joining the main road at Buckland Wharf. 

 Another road branches from Akeman Street near the 

 same point and runs towards the south through Buck- 

 land Common to Cholesbury. The Lower and Upper 

 Icknield Ways also cross the parish, and the ancient 

 earthwork known as Grim's Dike can be traced. No 

 line of railway crosses the parish, and the nearest 

 stations are at Aylesbury, 4 miles away, and Tring, 

 5 miles away. 



The village lies round the church and consists of 

 small farm houses, in one of which is some 1 7th- 

 century panelling, and cottages, some thatched. 



Buckland House, the residence of the Rev. Edward 

 Bonus, a large house, lies to the south-west of the 

 church. 



The population is mainly agricultural. The parish 

 was inclosed by Act of Parliament, the award bearing 

 the date 1 1 April 1 844. 



The manor of BUCKLAND belonged 

 MJNOR before the Norman Conquest to the see 

 of Dorchester, which afterwards became 

 that of Lincoln. In the time of Edward the Con- 

 fessor* it was held by Godric, the brother of Bishop 

 Wulwig, but he could not assign or sell it without 

 the bishop's leave. Afterwards it was granted by 

 William I to Bishop Remigius* of Lincoln, the 

 Norman successor of Wulwig, and it belonged to the 

 temporalities of the see until the 1 6th century, 7 

 when on the forfeiture of the lands of the Earl of 

 Warwick, the bishop's sub-tenant, the manor was 

 seized by the king.' From that time it was held in 

 chief of the king* by his grantee by knight service. 



Bishop Remigius granted the manor of Buckland 

 to a sub-tenant named Walter, who held it at the 

 time of the Domesday Survey. 10 To whom it passed 

 in the early part of the I2th century does not appear, 

 but later it was presumably in the hands of William 



" Harl. MS. 3688. ' Ibid. 



Vthr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), IT, 1 1. 

 "" Ibid. 

 1 Inf. from Bd. of Agric. (190;). 



r.C.H. Bufki. i, Geological Map. 



OrJ. Sur*. Ibid. 



r.C.H. Btcki. i, 1340. 



Ibid. 



7 Tata dt ffrvitl (Rec. Com.), 145* j 

 FnJ. Aidi, i, 85, 98, 123 ; Chin. Inq. 

 p.m. 4 Ric. II, no. 21; ibid. 9 Ric. II, no. 

 131. 



327 



Chin. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), ccclviii, no. 

 99 ; ibid, ccclviii, no. 102. 



IbiJ. Miic. D. nxvii, 21 Chat. I, pt. 

 32, no. 105. 



> y.C.H. Bub. i, 233*. 



