HAMBLEDON, a parish in the hundred of DESBOROUGH, county of BUCKINGHAM, 4 miles (W.) from Great Marlow, containing 1281 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £35, and in the. patronage of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome edifice, containing three stone stalls and a circular font richly ornamented, together with some interesting monuments. There is a place of worship for Independents. A small (school rs supported by trifling bequests from Augustine Varnell, in 1734, and the Rev. William Fairfax, in 1763. Here was formerly a market on Monday, granted in 1315, and a fair on the festival of St. Bartholomew, in 1321. Greenland-house, in this parish, was garrisoned for the king in May 1664, and, after'sustaining a long and severe siege from the parliamentary army under Major General Brown, surrendered, having been re- duced to a heap of ruins.