Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire

Description
Gerrard's Cross, a village and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1861 out of the parishes of Fulmer, Chalfont St Peter's, Iver, Langley Marish, and Upton-cum-Chalvey, in Bucks. The village stands 3 miles ESE of Beaconsfield, and 6 N by E of Slough station on the G.W.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Population of parish, 605. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £400 with residence. The church is a memorial one to Major-General Reid by his sisters the Misses Reid, stands on a wide common, was built in 1859 after designs by Tite, and is in the Romanesque style. The Pilgrim's Home here, founded by the late Sir J. W. Alexander, Bart, was bequeathed by him to the Pilgrims' Friend Society. Bulstrode Park is a chief residence.