Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Lillingstone Dayrell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.
Parish church: St. Nicholas
Parish registers begin: 1584
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Adjacent Parishes
- Westbury
- Stowe
- Lillingstone Lovell
- Whittlebury, Northamptonshire
- Leckhampstead
- Luffield Abbey, Northamptonshire
- Akeley
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LILLINGSTONE-DAYRELL, a parish in the district and county of Buckingham; near the boundary with Northamptonshire, 4½ miles N of Buckingham r. station. Post town, Buckingham.
Acres, 2,223. Real property, £2,585. Pop., 198. Houses, 33. The property is divided among three. The manor has belonged since before the Conquest to the Dayrell family. Lillingstone House is the seat of A. J. Robarts, Esq., and stands in an extensive park.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £278. Patron, E. F. Dayrell, Esq. The church is ancient but good; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains brasses and tombs of the Dayrells from 1481. Charities, £15.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Lillingstone-Dayrell, 3½ miles N. Buckingham. P. 187
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
LILLINGSTONE-DAYRELL (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union, hundred, and county of Buckingham, 4½ miles (N.) from Buckingham; containing 187 inhabitants.
It comprises 2223a. 1p., of which 200 acres are arable, about 400 woodland, and the remainder meadow and pasture. The surface in some parts is hilly, commanding extensive prospects, and the lower grounds are watered by a brook; the soil is clayey and deep.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £7. 9. 7., and in the gift of Richard Dayrell, Esq., whose ancestors have been patrons upwards of 500 years, and have resided here for eighteen generations: the tithes have been commuted for £278. 8. 6., and the glebe comprises one acre.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Buckingham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Oxford, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Buckingham
- Poor Law Union: Buckingham
- Hundred: Buckingham
- Province: Canterbury