ASHENDON, a parish in the hundred of ASHENDON, county of BUCKINGHAM, 65 miles (N.) from Thame, containing 339 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £ 8 per annum private benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.