RITCHINGS, or Rickings, a seat in Iver parish, Bucks; near the boundary with Middlesex, 1¼ mile N by E of Colnbrook. It belonged to Lord Bathurst; was a resort of all the chief literati of his time; passed, in 1739, to the Earl of Hertford; figured then in connexionwith Pope, Shenstone, Thomson, and other poets; wasinhabited also by the Duchess of Somerset; passed to the Sullivans; and belongs now toMeeking, Esq.

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