Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hughenden (or Hitchendon)

Hughenden (or Hitchendon), par. and vil., S. Bucks, 1 mile N. of Wycombe, 5828 ac., pop. 1803; Hughenden Manor was the seat of Benjamin Disraeli (1805-1881), Earl of Beaconsfield, whose tomb is in the church of St Michael and All Angels, which contains many interesting memorials of his lordship, one of the chief of these being a beautiful statue erected to his memory by Queen Victoria.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hughenden CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: HITCHENDON     |     HUGHENDEN     |     HUGHENDEN OR HITCHENDON
Place: Hughenden

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.