Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Quainton (or Quinton)

Quainton (or Quinton), par., township, and vil. (ry. stations Quainton and Quainton Road), Bucks - par., 5346 ac., pop. 865; township, 3805 ac., pop. 804; vil., 6½ miles NW. of Aylesbury; P.O., called Queynton; Quainton Hill is famous for its fossils.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish, township, and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Quainton CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: QUAINTON     |     QUAINTON OR QUINTON     |     QUEYNTON     |     QUINTON
Place: Quainton

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