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Wootton-Under-Wood (All Saints)

WOOTTON-UNDER-WOOD (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Aylesbury, hundred of Ashendon, county of Buckingham, 7 miles (N. by W.) from Thame; containing 265 inhabitants. It comprises about 2000 acres, of which the soil is a strong clay, and the surface flat: the village is pleasantly situated within a mile of Dorton Spa. Wootton House, an elegant mansion belonging to the Duke of Buckingham, built after the model of the old Buckingham Palace at Pimlico, stands in a park richly embellished with wood, and diversified with a lake studded with picturesque islands. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £69; patron, the Duke; appropriator, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was repaired a few years since, when a spire of wood, covered with copper, was added to the tower: in the Grenville chapel, or south aisle, which was built in 1343, a columbarium has been constructed by his grace for the interment of his family.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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