TURVILLE, a parish in the hundred of DESBOROUGH, county of BUCKINGHAM, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Great Marlow, containing 362 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 9.9.9., endowed with £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The manufacture of lace is carried on here. The celebrated French general, Dumourier, resided at this place during the last two or three years of his life, where he died, and was buried at Henley.