Description
Chesham-Bois, a parish in Bucks, on the river Chess, 1 mile NNE of Amersham station on the Metropolitan Extension railway. Post town, Chesham (R.S.O.) Acreage, 910; population, 552. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £123 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1881, is an ancient building in the Early English style. It contains a curious pulpit and a rich altar-tomb of Cheyne, the patron of Hooker.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
