Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire

Description
Quarrendon or Quarrington, a village and a parish in Bucks, 2 miles NW of Aylesbury, where there are stations on the L. & N.W.R. and M.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Aylesbury. Acreage of the civil parish, 1948; population, 52; of the ecclesiastical, with Bierton, 1034. The manor belongs to the Dn Pre family. Nearly all the land is devoted to grazing. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Bierton, in the diocese of Oxford; joint net value, £309 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. There is no church. A splendid chapel was erected here in 1392 by John Farnham, contained fine monuments and altar-tombs of the Lee family, and is now reduced to remains of a beautiful Decorated English window, and a few roofless arches.