Creslow, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Creslow, a parish in Bucks, 4½ miles SSE of Winslow station on the L. & N.W.R., and 1 mile NE from Whitchurch. Post town, Aylesbury; money order and telegraph office, Whitchurch. Acreage, 887; population, 12. The manor was given in 1120 to the Knights Templars, went to the Knights of St. John, passed at the dissolution to the Crown,'and was granted in 1653 to the regicide Cornelius Holland. Creslow contains but one dwelling —viz. The ancient manor-house, which includes portions of the time of Edward III., with extensive alterations of the time of Charles I., and is very picturesque. A chapel adjoined it in which many illustrious persons were interred in the times of the Knights of St John; and some remains of this, including a beautiful Transition Roman doorway, still exist. The Creslow pastures were feeding ground for cattle for the royal kitchen from the time of Elizabeth till that of Charles II., and are still notable for fertility.
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 | Creslow Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | Cottesloe | |
Poor Law union | Aylesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Creslow was in Aylesbury Registration District from 1837 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Creslow from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Creslow (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Creslow 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:
Visitations Heraldic
A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online