WHITCHURCH, a parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 4 miles (N. by W.)
from Aylesbury, containing 845 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £8. 17., and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist,
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A market on Monday, and a fair on the festival of St.
John the Evangelist, granted in 1245, were formerly
held here.