HORTON, a parish in the hundred of STOKE,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 1 mile (S.S.W.) from Coinbrook,
containing 796 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £22. 9. 4. The
Rev. W. Browne was patron in 1796. The church,
dedicated to St. Michael, contains a doorway with a
circular arch, enriched with Saxon mouldings, and is
surrounded by a Roman wall. A large paper-mill on
the banks of the Coin affords employment to between
forty and fifty persons. The Colnbrook cattle fair is held
in this parish. The parents of Milton the poet resided
here, and his mother, who died in 1637, is interred in
the church; a few of the juvenile years of the poet
himself were passed at this place.