HARDWICKE, a parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (N. by W.)
from Aylesbury, containing, with the hamlet of Weedon,
627 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in thiking's
books at £39. 9 7, and in the patronage of the
Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The church
is dedicated to St.Mary. John Bridle, D. D., in 17HI,
founded a charity school and endowed it with land:-,
the proceeds of which are applied to the instruction of
eighteen boys and twelve girls.