Grandborough, Buckinghamshire

Description
Grandborough, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 1 1/2 mile S by E of Winslow station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post office under Winslow; money order and telegraph office, North Marston. Acreage, 1580; population, 301. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £234 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and has a tower. At the restoration of the church in 1880, a "crismatory" was found buried in the chancel-arch, there being only one other specimen in England, at St Martin's, Canterbury. Preserved in the church are an alabaster altar-piece and a finely carved stone, remains of the Biggin Priory formerly connected with St Albans Abbey. Hollands the regicide's family lived in the parish for more than two centuries. Of the glebe, 22 acres are let by the vicar in labourers' allotments; 5 acres of land, part of which is given for church expenses by way of endowment, are divided into poor's lots, in lien of their right before the Enclosures Act to cut furze There is a Wesleyan chapel.