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Winslow in Buckingham County England History and GeographyWINSLOW, a market town and parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE, county of BUCKINGHAM, 6½ miles (S.E.) from Buckingham, and 50 (N.W.) from London, containing 1222 inhabitants. This town is of considerable antiquity, having been given by King Offa to the abbey of St. Albans, so early as 794: it is situated on the brow of a hill, and consists of three principal streets, regularly built and of neat appearance; the houses are chiefly of brick; water is amply supplied from wells. The land in the vicinity is extremely fertile, and in a high state of cultivation: lace-making is carried on to a small extent. The market, granted by charter of Henry III., is on Thursday; a small quantity of corn is pitched in the market-house. Fairs are held on February 18th, March 20th, Holy Thursday, August 21st, September 22nd, November 26th, for cattle; the Thursday before Old Michaelmas day, and the first and second Thursday following, are statute fairs. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of St. Albans, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £11. 5. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, which is dedicated to St. Lawrence, is a spacious and venerable structure, in the later style of English architecture, with a square embattled tower at the west end. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists. Joseph Rogers, in 1724, bequeathed £600 in trust, directing it to be vested in land, and the rental, now amounting to about £22 per annum, to be applied to the instruction of twelve poor children; and a further sum of £27. 10. was formerly granted by a person unknown, for the charity school at Hanging Stiles. The white poppy was so successfully cultivated here, in 1821, as to produce sixty pounds of opium, worth, at least, £75, from four acres, and one hundred and forty-three pounds, in the next year, from eleven acres; for which, on both occasions, the prize of thirty guineas was awarded by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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