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Lee, Buckinghamshire

Historical Description

Lee, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, 2½ miles from Great Missenden, 3½ SE of Wendover, 4½ NW from Chesham station on the Metropolitan Extension railway, and 6½ SW of Tring. It has a post office of the name of Lee Town, under Great Missendon (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 502; population, 119. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £75 with residence. The church, erected in 1868, is a building of brick in the Early English style. The old church is now used as a Sunday school. A noble yew tree, probably older than the ancient church, is in the churchyard. Lee church was originally a chapel of ease to Weston Turville, 8 miles N. The advowson and tithes were granted by the Crown to Lord Russell in 1547, but the connection with that family has long since ceased. There are Roman remains and those of ancient smelting works in the neighbourhood.

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 parishLee St. John the Baptist 
HundredAylesbury 
Poor Law unionAmersham 

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


Church Records

The parish registers date from the year 1678.


Churches

Church of England

St. John the Baptist (parish church)

The church of St. John the Baptist, erected in 1869, is a small edifice of brick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, vestry, south porch and a western bell gable containing one bell inscribed, Michael de Wymbis me fecit, and probably of the 13th century: during 1910-11 the church was enlarged by the extension of the chancel, the addition of two transepts, a baptistery and vestry: new choir stalls were added and the east wall and chancel panelled in oak: there are 200 sittings: in the churchyard, which was extended by a gift of land from the patron, is a very large and ancient yew tree.


Civil Registration

Lee was in Amersham Registration District from 1837 to 1954


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lee from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Lee 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

CountyBuckinghamshire

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