CRENDON (LONG), a parish in the hundred of ASHENDON, county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N.by W.) from Thame, containing 1212 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £800 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in. the patronage of the Duke of Marlborough. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a spacious edifice with a tower rising from the centre. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. A school is supported by donations pro- ducing from £5 to £6 per annum. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of needles. Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and his countess, in 1162, built and endowed the abbey of Nuttley for regular canons of- the order of St. Augustine; it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist) and,, at the dissolution, possessed a revenue valued at £495. 18. 5.: the remains have been converted into a farm-house; part of the cloisters is still discernible, and round the cornice of an ancient room is the Stafford knot, repeatedly labelled in black letter, with the motto En lui Plaisance.