CHALFONT (ST-PETER'S), a parish in the hundred
of BURNHAM, county of BUCKINGHAM, 4 miles
(E. by N.) from Beaconsfield, containing 1351 inhabit-
ants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £ 15. 1?. 1., and in the patronage of the President
and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford. The
church, rebuilt in 1726, is a plain brick edifice, with
quoins and window and door-cases of stone brought
from the ruins of the Roman station of Verulam, now
St. Albans; it contains some ancient gravestones with
brasses. This parish is intersected by a tributary stream
of the Colne, called Missbourne, upon which there is a
silk-mill, affording employment to about fifty women.
The petty sessions for 'the division are holden here;
and a court baron is held by the lord of the manor. At
Gerrard's Cross the Earl of Portland built a school,
which is supported by his  descendant, who appoints
the master, paying him a salary for teaching poor boys
of this and the adjoining parishes j and a fund is now
accumulating for the purpose of endowing another
school.