Hillesden, Buckinghamshire

Description
Hillesden, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire, on a branch of the river Ouse, 2 1/2 miles N by W from Steeple-Claydon station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 1/2 S by W from Buckingham. Post town, Buckingham; money order and telegraph office, Steeple Claydon. Acreage, 2606; population, 197. The manor belonged formerly to the Courtenays, Earls of Devon, afterwards to the Dentons, and belongs now to the Morrison family, and the manor house was garrisoned for Charles I., suffered assault and spoliation by the Parliamentarians, by whom it was set fire to and reduced to ruins. Having been rebuilt by the Denton family, it remained standing until it was taken down by the second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, who had bought the estate from the Earl of Leicester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese-of Oxford; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church, a building of wrought ashlar, is a fine specimen of the Perpendicular style, consists of nave,. aisles, and chancel, with N porch and W embattled tower, was in great part restored in 1875 by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott, B.A., and was further restored in 1893 by his son, Mr John Oldrid Scott, F.R.S. It contains monuments of the Dentons, Ishams, and others.