WAVENDON, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (N. E.) from
Fenny - Stratford, containing 721 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£26.'6. 10., and in the patronage of H.Hugh Hoare,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The sum
of £1000 was given by Mr. George Wells, who died in
1714, and his niece, Mrs. Miller, with which a charity
school was built, and endowed with lands producing
upwards of £40 per annum, for teaching, clothing, and
apprenticing ten boys.