ICKFORD, a parish partly in the hundred of
EWELME, county of OXFORD, but chiefly in that of
ASHENDON, county of BUCKINGHAM, 4 miles (W. by N.)
from Thame, containing 324 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the. archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 9. 9. 7.
R. Townsend>, Esq. was patron in 1808. The church is
dedicated to St. Nicholas. Here is a place of worship
for Baptists. In 1733, £10 per annum was given by
Thomas Phillips, for the use of a schoolmaster. Ickford
is supposed by some writers to have been the place
where the treaty between Edward and the Danes was
signed, in 907. Calybute Downing, a celebrated divine in
the seventeenth century, was rector of this parish.