Horton, Buckinghamshire

Description
Horton, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands on the river Colne, at the boundary with Middlesex, 1 1/2 mile N from Wraysbury station on the L. & S.W.R., 1 1/2 from Colnbrook station on the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles ESE from Eton, is a rural place embosomed in wood, and has a post office under Slough; money order and telegraph office, Colnbrook. The parish includes part of Colnbrook chapelry. Acreage, 1367; population of the civil parish, 824; of the ecclesiastical, 433. The manor belongs to the Williams family. The poet Milton resided here from his twenty-fourth till his thirtieth year, and wrote his-" Comus," his " Lycidas," his " Arcades," his " Sonnet to th& Nightingale," and probably also his "Allegro" and " Pen-seroso." A portion of his house stood till about 1770, and. was known as the poet's house, and is said to have been on or near the site of a recently erected mansion near the church, The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £408. The church, which is an ancient building of flint faced with stone, chiefly in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, has a Norman arch, is partly covered with ivy, and contains, under the chancel, the grave of Milton's mother.