Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Seer Green, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Farnham Royal, Bucks, 2 miles SW from Beaconsfield, and 5 SW from Woburn Green station on the Wycombe, Thame, and Oxford branch of the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Beaconsfield (R.S.O.) Acreage of township, 889; population, 284. The manor belongs to the Duke of Leeds, who is chief landowner. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1847. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £105 with residence, in the gift of Eton College. There is a Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Civil parish | Farnham Royal | |
Hundred | Burnham | |
Poor Law union | Amersham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1846.
Churches
Church of England
The Holy Trinity (parish church)
The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1846, on a site given by the Duke of Leeds, is a building of flint and stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a western turret containing one bell: there are 200 sittings.
Civil Registration
Seer Green was in Amersham Registration District from 1837 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Seer Green from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Seer-Green)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Seer Green 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