DINTON, a parish chiefly in the hundred of AYLESBURY,
but comprising also the hamlet of Aston-Mollins
in the hundred of ASHENDON, and the liberty of Moreton
in the hundred of DESBOROUGH, county of BUCKINGHAM,
4 miles (w. S. W.) from Aylesbury, containing
817 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £ 17 9. 7, and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and
St. Paul, has a small portion in the Norman style of
architecture. The river Tame runs through the parish;
and there is a petrifying spring, called Holywell. Fossils
vof the cardium and buccinum genera are found here in
abundance.