HITCHAM, a parish in Eton district, Bucks; on the river Thames, at the boundary with Berks, adjacent to the Great Western railway, 2 miles NE by E of Maidenhead. Post town, Maidenhead. Acres, 1, 370. Real property, £2, 093. Pop., 205. Houses, 47. The property is divided among a few. Hitcham House was the seat of the Clerkes; and was visited, in 1602, by Queen Elizabeth. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £364.* Patron, Eton College. The church has stained windows; is ancient but very good; and contains two brasses of the 16th century, and a monument of Friend, the author of a "History of Physic." There is a charity school.

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