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.
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 | Lee St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Aylesbury | |
Poor Law union | Amersham |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lee (St. John the Baptist))
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:
- 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