"Drayton Beauchamp, six miles from Aylesbury, and two from Tring,
in Hertfordshire, is situated near the course of the turnpike-road from
London, on the eastern verge of Buckinghamshire, and near the Roman
Ickeneld Way, which intersects this parish, and has imparted to it many
interesting features. The adjunct to its name was evidently derived from a
great family, who had acquired possessions here at an early period; but,
at the Domesday Survey, it was included in Muselai Hundred. It is bounded,
on the North and East, by part of Hertfordshire; and on the South and
West, by Buckland."
[The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, by George
Lipscomb, 1847] |
