Ashendon, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Ashendon, a parish in Bucks. The parish is near the Julian way, 9 miles W of Aylesbury, and 4½ SW from Quainton Road station on the L. & N.W.R., and includes the hamlet of Pollicote. Post town, Thame; money order and telegraph office, Brill. Acreage, 2128; population of the civil parish, 199; of the ecclesiastical, 336. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Dorton, in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £180, in the gift of Earl Temple. The church contains the figure of a crusader, and is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. The font is either Norman or Saxon.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Ashendon St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Ashendon | |
| Poor Law union | Aylesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1670
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The parish church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated, Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, and an arcade of three arches connecting it with the south aisle, south porch and a western tower containing 3 bells; there are two piscinae; in the chancel, beneath a depressed crocketed arch with filial, is a tomb with the figure of a cross-legged warrior in chain mail, the hauberk reaching to his knees and covered with a surcoat; his right hand grasps his sword and his left the scabbard, the left arm bearing a large heater-shaped shield; the effigy may commemorate a member of the Cheyndutt family, and is of the late 13th century; there are also many mural monuments: the church was restored in 1923 and many interesting features revealed behind the plaster; these included a 13th century arch leading to a north transept, and within that arch a smaller one of the 15th century leading to a chantry chapel, together with a squint of the same date; a staircase leading to the rood screen was also discovered: the church affords 120 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Ashendon was in Aylesbury Registration District from 1837 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ashendon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashendon (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ashendon are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:
Villages, Hamlets, &c
PollicotVisitations Heraldic
A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online