IVINGHOE, a parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE, county of BUCKINGHAM, comprising the market-town of lyinghoe, and the hamlets of Aston, Horton with Seabrook, and St.Margaret, and containing 1665 inhabitants, of which number, 551 are in the town of Ivinghoe, 9 miles (E. by N.) from Aylesbury, and 33 (N. W.) from London. This'small town is situated on the side of a chalk hill, near the ancient British and Roman road called Iknield-street; it consists principally of two streets extending in the form of the letter T, contains but few good houses, and is neither lighted nor paved, but is abundantly supplied with water from wells. The Grand Junction canal, which passes within the distance of a mile, affords a communication with the northern and western counties of England, and enables the inhabitants to obtain coal from Staffordshire. The only manufacture is that of straw-plat, which furnishes employment for the lower class of the female inhabitants, A small market is held on Thursday for the sale of straw-plat, butchers meat, and vegetables; and there are fairs, chiefly for cattle, pigs, and sheep, on May 6th and October 17th. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12. 16. 1., endowed with & 1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Trustees of the late Earl of Bridgewater. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient building, with a square tower and a small spire; and in the chancel is an altar-tomb with a recumbent statue, which has been ascribed, perhaps erroneously, to Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, the brother of King Stephen, who is supposed to have had a seat near the town. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. In the hamlet of St. Margaret are some remains of a convent of Benedictine nuns, founded about Il60, by Bishop de Blois, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was estimated at £22. 6. 7.