MEDMENHAM, a parish in the hundred of UWBOROUGH, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (S.W. by W.) from Great Marlow, containing 369 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £5. 7. 1. Robert Scott, Esq. was patron in 1801. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. An abbey for Cistercian monks was founded here by Hugh de Bolebec, as a cell to the monastery at Woburn, the revenue of which was valued at £20. 6. 2.: a very small portion of the conventual buildings remains; the site is partly occupied by a modern erection, in imitation of ruins, nearly overgrown with ivy. Above the village are vestiges of a large camp, nearly square, with a single vallum and ditch; the area comprises about seven acres. An ancient circular intrenchment in this parish is called Danesfield.