Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire

Description
Hedgerley, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 2 3/4 miles SE of Beacousfield, and 5 N from Slough station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Gerrards Cross (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Famham Common. The parish comprises 1097 acres; population, 118. The manor, with Hedgerley Park, belongs to the Stevenson family. The mansion of Hedgerley Park is a handsome edifice, with Doric pillars from the portico of old Lady Place. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £134 with residence. The church, which is a building of flint and rubble m the Early Decorated style, was rebuilt in 1852, has a tower, and contains an ancient circular font and a palimpsest brass of Abbot Totyngton. It also contains a relic in the form of a small portion of a plum-coloured velvet mantle of Charles II., which was formerly in use as an altar cloth. This has been mounted and framed, and placed in the chancel in the position of & mural tablet.