AKELY, a parish in the hundred of BUCKINGHAM, and county of
BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Buckingham,
containing 295 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £6. 2. 4., and in the
patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College,
Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. James the
Apostle. There was formerly a chapel of ease at Stockholt,
in this parish.