Horton (St. Michael)

HORTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Eton, hundred of Stoke, county of Buckingham, 1¼ mile (S. S. W.) from Colnbrook; containing, with part of the town of Colnbrook, 873 inhabitants. A papermill on the banks of the Coln affords employment to about 50 persons. The Colnbrook cattle-fairs are held in the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £22. 9. 4½.; net income, £385; patron, T. P. Williams, Esq.: the tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1799. The church contains a Norman doorway with a circular arch enriched with mouldings, and is surrounded by a Roman wall. The parents of Milton resided here, and his mother, who died in 1637, is interred in the church; a few of the juvenile years of the poet were passed at the place.