Lee, Buckinghamshire

Description
Lee, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, 2 1/2 miles from Great Missenden, 3 1/2 SE of Wendover, 4 1/2 NW from Chesham station on the Metropolitan Extension railway, and 6 1/2 SW of Tring. It has a post office of the name of Lee Town, under Great Missendon (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 502; population, 119. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £75 with residence. The church, erected in 1868, is a building of brick in the Early English style. The old church is now used as a Sunday school. A noble yew tree, probably older than the ancient church, is in the churchyard. Lee church was originally a chapel of ease to Weston Turville, 8 miles N. The advowson and tithes were granted by the Crown to Lord Russell in 1547, but the connection with that family has long since ceased. There are Roman remains and those of ancient smelting works in the neighbourhood.