Twyford, Buckinghamshire

Description
Twyford, a parish in Buckinghamshire, 6 miles SW from Buckingham. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R. line from Bletchley to Oxford, 1 3/4 mile SW from the village, called Marsh Gibbon and Poundon. Post town, Buckingham; money order and telegraph office, Steeple Claydon. Acreage, 1567; population, 349. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The ecclesiastical parish includes the civil parishes of Poundon and Charndon. Population, 554. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £272 with residence, in the gift of the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, consisting of ohancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has some ancient tombs and monuments, including one of a Crusader, and a Norman font.