CLAYDON (Steeple), a parish in the district and county of Buckingham; 1½ mile NE of Claydon r. station, and 4½ W of Winslow. It has a post office under Winslow. Acres, 3, 270. Real property, £5, 240. Pop., 946. Houses, 210. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given by the Conqueror to his niece Judith; went back to the Crown; was given by Henry I. to Robert D'Oyley; passed to the Fitz-Johns, the Cliffords, the Burghs, and the Mortimers; belonged to Edward IV. as grandson of Mortimer, Earl of March; was given, in 1557, to Sir Thomas Chaloner; and passed, by purchase, in 1705, to Sir John Verney. A considerable town stood around the church at Domesday; but has nearly disappeared. Cromwell's army encamped in the parish, at what is called the Camp Burn, in March 1644. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Oxford; and, till 1867, was united with East Claydon. Value, £242.* Patron, Sir H. Verney, Bart. The church was enlarged in 1842, and repaired in 1859; and contains monuments of the Chaloners.

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