Horsenden, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Horsenden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.
Alternative names: Horsendon
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1637
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1614
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HORSENDON, a parish in Wycombe district, Bucks; on Icknield street, near the boundary with Oxfordshire, 1½ mile WSW of Princes-Risborough r. station. Post town, Princes-Risborough, under Tring. Acres, 517. Real property, £863. Pop., 45. Houses, 7.
The manor was held by Archbishop Morton; passed to the Cottons, the Denhams, the Pentons, and the Grubbes; and went by sale, in 1838, to the Duke of Buckingham, and, in 1848, to the Rev. W. E. Partridge. The manor house was garrisoned by Sir John Denham, for Charles I.
The living is a rectory, now united with the vicarage of Illmire, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £188. Patron, the Rev. W. E. Partridge. The church was recently restored.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Wycombe
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Pre-1845 – Lincoln, Post-1844 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Wendover
- Poor Law Union: Wycombe
- Hundred: Aylesbury
- Province: Canterbury