KIMBLE (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
AYLESBURY, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (W. S.
W.) from Wendover, containing 360 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, consolidated, in 1799,
with the rectory of Great Hampden, in the archdeaconry
of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £6. 10. 5., endowed with £400 private
benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Earl of Buckinghamshire. The church is
dedicated to St. Nicholas. A school for boys is supported
by voluntary contributions. Kimble, according
to old records, was anciently called Kunebel, from Cunobelin,
or Cymbeline, the British king, whose sons
here gallantly opposed the Romans, but were defeated
and one of them slain. There are still the remains of
several intrenchments on the supposed field of battle;
and on a circular mound in the neighbourhood are vestiges
of a fortification, termed Belinus Castle, where it
is said Cunobelin resided.