Pitchcott, Buckinghamshire

Description
Pitchcott, a village and a parish in Bucks, 7 miles NW of Aylesbury, and 3 from Quainton Road station on the Metropolitan railway. Post town, Aylesbury; money order and telegraph office, Whitchurch. Acreage, 925; population, 41. The manor belongs to Christchurch College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £227 with residence. The church is a small interesting building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a western tower. It has three stained glass windows, and a bishop is supposed to have been buried in the body of the church or chancel. On the S side of the chancel, and near a window, is apparently a stone rest for a book, which is curious and interesting. It is supposed that the window was a lepers' window, and the stone rest for the book from which the priest read is in such a position that he could be seen by those standing outside. The churchyard is very large, and it is supposed that many of those who fell in an engagement between the Roundheads and Cavaliers are interred in it, as the place is full of bones. There is a large field in the parish called the Covenanters' Meadow