town (parish), South Bucks district, administrative and historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, just north of Slough. It has become a fashionable residential area on the lower slopes of the Chiltern Hills, with a famous golf club on the site of a manor house built by William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Thomas Gray (Gray, Thomas), the poet, is buried in the churchyard, reputedly the setting for his “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” (published 1751). Pop. (2001) 4,414.