a market-town of the hundred of Burnham, in the county of Buckingham, twenty-four miles from London, on the road to Oxford. The streets are four in number, crossing each other at right angles. This place is celebrated as the residence of the poet Waller and of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. The market is held on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1149, in 1811 to 1461, and in 1821 to 1736.