BLEDLOW, a parish in the hundred of AYLESBURY,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 65 miles (E.S.E.) from
Thame, containing, with Bledlow-Ridge, 1050 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £16. 9. 7., endowed with £400
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of Lord Carrington. The church, dedicated
to the Holy Trinity, stands on the edge of a cliff, overhanging
a deep glen, into which several springs fall, and
uniting form a pool, called the Lyde, the water of which
is stated to be continually undermining the rock, so as
to have given rise to a rhyming distich, expressive of
the insecure foundation of the church.