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Iver, Buckinghamshire

Historical Description

Iver, a village and a large parish in Bucks. The village stands on the river Colne, near the Grand Junction Canal and the boundary with Middlesex, 2 miles WNW from West Drayton station on the G.W.R., and 2¾ SSW from Uxbridge; dates from ancient times; takes its name from Sir Roger de Ivery, who came in with William the Conqueror; is a scattered place; was once a market-town; and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Uxbridge. The parish comprises 6399 acres of land and 68 of water; population, 2476. The ecclesiastical district of St Margaret's, Iver Heath, was taken out of the original parish in 1862. Population, 757. Thorney Farm is said to have been a residence of Oliver Cromwell. Eichings Park, now the seat of the Meeking family, was the residence of Lord Bathurst, frequented by the most distinguished wits of his time; passed from him to the Earl of Hertford; and was frequented, under the auspices of Lady Hertford, by all the poets of her time. A walk adjoining it is specially associated with the memory of Pope, and bears the name of Pope's Walk. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £70. The church, restored in 1848 at a cost of £2800, is a building of flint in mixed styles, and contains monuments to Sir George and Sir Edward Salter, carvers to Charles I. There are a cottage hospital, opened in 1875, and a village hall, opened in 1881. Shredding Green and Thomey are adjacent hamlets.

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 parishIver St. Peter 
HundredStoke 
Poor Law unionEton 

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


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1605.


Churches

Church of England

St. Peter (parish church)

The parish church of St. Peter, restored in 1848 is a building of flint in mixed styles, and of various dates, the earliest building dating from Saxon times: it consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, with two Norman bays on the north side and three Early English bays on the south, and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 bells, tuned and rehung in 1886 to celebrate the completion of the 50th year of the ministry of the Rev. William Sparrow Ward M.A. vicar of the parish 1835-89; the old wooden bell frame has been removed and replaced by a steel frame: the chancel retains marble piscinae and sedilia; and the staircase to the rood loft also remains: in the chancel is a monument, with figure rising from a tomb, to Lady Mary Salter, 1631: a brass with effigies to Sir R. Blount, 1508, and his wife, and on the south wall two carvings in low relief and the date 1607: there are alabaster memorial windows to Mary, wife of C. J. H. Tower esq. d. 1865, Christopher Tower esq. of Huntsmore Park, d. 1884, Lady Sophia Frances (Brownlow-Cust), his wife, d. 21 Dec. 1882, and another, erected by the late Lt.-Col. Charles Meeking, to his wife, two sons and a daughter: a reredos and oak panelling in the sanctuary, the gift of the late Lt.-Col. Charles Meeking, was erected in 1892 to his mother, Mrs. Meeking, of Richings Park: during the period 1896-8 a new organ was provided, the west gallery removed, and a new oak lobby, vestry and staircase to the tower erected: there are 450 sittings: a lych gate was erected by the daughters of the late Lord Anslow to his memory, in 1937. The best of the ancient timber from the belfry was used for this purpose.


Civil Registration

Iver was in Eton Registration District from 1837 to 1974


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Iver from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Iver 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

DistrictSouth Bucks
CountyBuckinghamshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtSL0
Post TownIver

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