DORNEY, a parish in the hundred of BURNHAM,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (W. N.W.) from Eton,
containing 279 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 10. 5, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of Sir Charles Harcourt
Palmer, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. James, has
a handsome tower. The parish is bounded on the west
and south by the Thames.