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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))
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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 |
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