Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire

Description
Claydon, Middle, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire, 2 1/2 miles E from Verney Junction station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 WSW of Winslow, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Steeple Claydon. Acreage, 2640 ; population, 227. The manor has belonged to the Verneys since the middle of the 15th century. Claydon House was rebuilt in the time of George II. by the second Earl of Verney in a style of great magnificence, but soon was severely injured by the Baroness Fermanagh, yet retains some-features of its original splendour. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford with the vicarage of East Claydon annexed ; joint net yearly value, £246 with residence, in the gift of Sir H. Verney, Bart. The church stands close to Claydon House, and has brasses of the 16th century, an alabaster tomb of Giffard, and many monuments of the Verneys, including one to Charles I.'s standard bearer at Edge-hill.