HARDWICKE, a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; on the Buckinghamshire railway, 4 miles NNW of Aylesbury. It includes the hamlet of Weedon; and its post-town is Aylesbury. Acres, 3,200. Real property, £6,351. Pop., 708. Houses, 168. The property is divided among a few. The principal farms have been recently purchased by Baron Rothschild, and have been much improved. Lilies House was built on the site of an ancient nunnery; belonged to the late Lord Nugent, who wrote the "Legends of Lilies;" and became the seat of Dr. Connel. There were found in the parish some interesting fossils now in the London Geological museum. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £645.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is ancient and good, with a tower; and has, over the altar, a monument of Sir Thomas Lee, of date 1616. There is a free school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))