MISSENDEN (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of AYLESBURY, county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (W. N. W.) from Amersham, containing 814 inhabitants.- The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in-the king's books at £13. 3. 9., and in the patronage of Earl Howe. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.