A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HORWOOD (GREAT), a village and a parish in Winslow district, Bucks. The village stands 2 miles N by E of Winslow r. station, and 2½ NE by N of Winslow; has a post office under Winslow; and was once a markettown. The parish includes also the hamlet of Singleborough, and comprises 3, 109 acres. Real property, £5, 640. Pop., 846. Houses, 197. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to New College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £445.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is partly fine decorted English, party perpendicnlar; is in good condition; has a tower; and contains three piscinæ, a triple sedilia, a brass of 1487, and two monuments to the Barker family. There are an Independent chapel, a handsome national school, built in 1861, and charities £13 and 27 acres of land..
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Great Horwood AP/CP Winslow RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place names: | GREAT HORWOOD | HORWOOD | HORWOOD GREAT |
| Place: | Great Horwood |
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