Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire

Description
Choulesbury or Cholesbury, a parish in Bucks, on the verge of the county, 3 miles S of Tring, and 3 1/4 SW of Tring station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Tring, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 178; population, 95. An ancient moated camp here, called Bury-Banks, is about a mile in circuit. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £90. Patrons, Trustees. The church stands within the camp, and is an edifice of flint in the Early English and Decorated styles.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5