CHESHAM-BOIS, a parish in the hundred of BURNHAM,
county of BUCKINGHAM, Ij mile (S. by B.) from
Chesham, containing 160 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory and a donative, rated in the king's books at
£5. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Duke of Bedford.
The church, dedicated to St. Leonard/contains a curious
pulpit and painted window of some antiquity; it was formerly
a chapel of ease to the vicarage of Chesham. The
northern part of this parish is crossed by a branch of
the river Coin, on which there are a paper-mill and a
corn-mill.