Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOGGESTON, or HOGSTON

HOGGESTON, or HOGSTON, a parish in Winslow district, Bucks; near the Buckinghamshire railway, 3½ miles SE of Winslow r. station. Post town, Winslow. Acres, 1, 526. Real property, £2, 946. Pop., 207. Houses, 42. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lord Stanhope. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £280. * Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good; has a wooden tower; and contains a mutilated effigies, thought to be of William de Bermingham, who, in the 14th century, founded a chantry here.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hoggeston CP/AP       Winslow RegD/PLU       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: HOGGESTON     |     HOGGESTON OR HOGSTON     |     HOGSTON
Place: Hoggeston

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