Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ellesborough like this:

ELLESBOROUGH, a village and a parish in Wycombe district, Bucks. The village stands 2½ miles SW by W of Wendover, and 3½ NE by N of Princes Risborough r. station. It was once a considerable town, but is not small and rural. The parish comprises 3, 310 acres. Post town, Wendover, under Tring. ...

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Real property, £4, 273. Pop., 724. Houses, 155. The property is divided among a few. An ancient fortification, called Belinus castle, is near the church; and traces of British camps are on Belinesbury hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, 285.* Patron, Sir R. G. Russell, Bart. The church was founded by St. Edburga of Quarrendon; contains a fine tomb of Brigetta Croke, of date 1659; and was recently repaired. There are alms-houses with £97, and a fuel allotment.

Ellesborough through time

Ellesborough is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ellesborough itself, go to Statistics.

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