HORWOOD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE, county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N.) from Winslow, containing, with the hamlet of Singleborough, 688 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 14. 4. 2., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. James. There is a place of worship for Independents. Here was formerly a weekly market on Wednesday, granted to the Society of New College in 144", with a fair for three days at the festival of St. James.