CLAYDON (Middle), a parish in the district and county of Buckingham; 2¼ miles E of Claydon r. station, and 4 WSW of Winslow. It has a post office under Winslow. Acres, 2, 586. Real property, £4, 035. Pop., 146. Houses, 33. The property is divided among a few. The manor has belonged to the Verneys since the middle of the 15th century. Claydon House, the seat of Sir H. Verney, Bart., was rebuilt in the time of George II., by the second Earl of Verney, in a style of great magnificence; but soon was severely injured by the Baroness Fermanagh; yet retains some features of its original splendour. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £540.* Patron, Sir H. Verney, Bart. The church stands close to Claydon House; and has brasses of the 16th century, an alabaster tomb of Giffard, and many monuments of the Verneys, including one to Charles I. 's standard-bearer at Edgehill. Verney's alms-houses have £16 from endowment; and other charities £65.

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