WESTON-TURVILLE, a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 3 miles SE of Aylesbury r. station. It has a post-office under Tring. Acres, 2,450. Real property, £4,799. Pop., 724. Houses, 149. There are four manors; and the chief one belonged till lately to the Duchy of Lancaster, and belongs now to Mr. J. Eldridge. A reservoir of the Grand Junction canal, covering nearly 70 acres, is here. Straw-plaiting is. largely carried on; and the Aylesbury breed of ducks is extensively reared. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £545.* Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1860. There are a parochial school, and charities £12.

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