Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FINMERE

FINMERE, a parish in the district of Brackley and county of Oxford; on the river Ouse, and on the Tring and Banbury railway, contiguous to Bucks, 4½ miles SE of Brackley. Post town, Mixbury, under Brackley. Acres, 1, 542. Real property, £2, 180. Pop., 338. Houses, 81. The property is divided among a few. Finmere House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £345.* Patron, William Ashwell, Esq. The church is very good; and there are charities £14.


(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: Finmere CP/AP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Finmere

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