Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide

Aston Sandford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.

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Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1609
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASTON-SANDFORD, a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; on a branch of the river Thame, 6 miles SW of Aylesbury r. station. Post Town, Dinton under Aylesbury. Acres, 669. Real property, £885. Pop., 59. Houses, 14. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £135. Patrons, Trustees. The church is later English, and small, with a gable-roofed porch. Scott the commentator was rector from 1803 till his death in 1821.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASTON-SANDFORD (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Aylesbury, hundred of Ashendon, county of Buckingham, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Thame; containing 86 inhabitants. It comprises 669a. 2r. 14p., of which 473 acres are tithable. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £12. 16. 0½., and in the patronage of Mrs. Susannah Barber: the tithes have been commuted for £107, and the glebe consists of 53½ acres. The church is in the later English style, and has a wooden tower with three bells. The remains of the Rev. Thomas Scott, a learned and pious commentator on the Scriptures, and for some time rector, were interred in the chancel.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848