CLIFTON-REYNES, a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; on the river Ouse, 1 mile E of Olney, and 6 NNE of Newport-Pagnell r. station. Post town, Olney, under Newport-Pagnell. Acres, 1, 444. Real property, £2, 077. Pop., 212. Houses, 47. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the De Bocards and the Reynes. Clifton was a retreat of the poet Cowper, and the residence of Lady Austen, who told him the story of John Gilpin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £360.* Patron, the Rev. H. A. Small. The church is partly early English, good and interesting; and contains monuments of the De Bocards and the Reynes. Charities, £15.

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