ICKENHAM, a parish in Uxbridge district, Middlesex; between Yedding brook and the river Colne, 2½ miles NE of Uxbridge r. station. It has a post office under Uxbridge. Acres, 1, 400. Real property, £2, 887. Pop., 351. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. The manor was anciently called Iykenham; belonged, at one time, to the Shoreditches; and belongs now to T. T. Clarke, Esq. Swakeleys, the seat of Mr. Clarke, is an edifice of 1638, in the Italian style. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London. Value, £382.* Patron, T. T. Clarke, Esq. The church is ancient. but good.

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