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Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire

Historical Description

Aston-Clinton, a township, a village, and a parish in Bucks. The township lies near Icknield Street and the Wendover and Aylesbury canals, 3 miles NW of Tring station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ SE of Aylesbury. It has a post and money order office under Tring, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3809; population, 1393. The parish includes also the ecclesiastical parish of St Leonard. Aston-Clinton House is a seat of the Rothschilds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £407. Patron, Jesus' College, Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style. There is also a Baptist chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyBuckinghamshire 
Ecclesiastical parishAston-Clinton St. Michael 
HundredAylesbury 
Poor Law unionAylesbury 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Aston Clinton 1560-1812, Buckinghamshire is available to browse online.

The parish register of baptisms dates from the year 1566, and that of burials and marriages from 1560


Churches

Church of England

St. Michael and All Angels (parish church)

The parish church of St. Michael and All Angels is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, with Perpendicular additions, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: it was restored in 1867: an organ was built in 1894: there is a stone pulpit: in the chancel is buried Gerard, 1st Viscount Lake, of Delhi and Laswaree, conqueror in 1804 of the great Mogul; he died 20 Feb. 1808; the church has 418 sittings: the churchyard is spacious and partially surrounded by a belt of lime trees.


Civil Registration

Aston Clinton was in Aylesbury Registration District from 1837 to 1974


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Aston Clinton from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Aston Clinton are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online

DistrictAylesbury Vale
CountyBuckinghamshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtHP22

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