BRADENHAM, a parish in Wycombe district, Bucks; on the Chilterns, 3½ miles NW by N of High Wycombe r. station. Post Town, High Wycombe. Acres, 1,001. Real property. £1,438. Pop., 185. Houses, 35. The property is divided among a few. Bradenham House belonged formerly to Lord Windsor, and was visited by Queen Elizabeth in 1566; was the death-place, in 1848, of D'Israeli, the author of "Curiosities of Literature;" and is now the seat of the Rev. John Graves. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £224.* Patron, the Rev. John Graves. The church is good.

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