BRICKHILL (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of
NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (E.S.E.)
from Fenny-Stratford, containing 485 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged perpetual curacy, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, as impropriator of the rectory,
which is rated in the king's books at £9- The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of- worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. At an early period Brickhill
was a place of considerable importance, and in the reign
of Elizabeth it was a market and assize town, the assizes
having been held here in 1638: the gallows stood on a
heath, about half a mile distant. The market has been
discontinued, but a fair is held on the 18th of October.
Fine specimens of sulphate of lime have been found in
the vicinity. There is an endowment of 56 5 per annum,
for which twelve boys are taught to read.