Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DESBOROUGH

DESBOROUGH, a hundred in Bucks; contiguous to Oxfordshire and Berks, and containing fifteen parishes and parts of two others. Acres, 45, 337. Pop., 19, 198. Houses, 3, 859.


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

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Desborough

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