Oving, Buckinghamshire

Description
Oving, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands on an eminence, 4 1/2 miles S of Winslow station on the Oxford, Banbury, and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 1/2 NNW of Aylesbury, and is a scattered place. It has a post office under Aylesbury; money order and telegraph office, North Marston. Acreage of parish, 990; population, 8ff4. There is a parish council. Oving House is the seat of the Pratt family, and occupies a commanding site overlooking the vale of Aylesbury. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £216 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is au ancient building of stone chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and western tower. It has some good stained windows. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a small charity.