Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BUNNY

BUNNY, a parish in Basford district, Notts; 5 miles SE of Beeston r. station, and 6½ S of Nottingham. Post Town, Plumtree, under Nottingham. Acres, 2,000. Real property, £3,415. Pop., 273. Houses, 68. The property is all in one estate. Bunny Park was the seat of the erudite and eccentric Sir T. Parkyns; and passed to Lord Rancliffe. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bradmore, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £.425.* Patron, Mrs. Forteath. The church is partly decorated English, and has a crocketted spire. There is an endowed school.


(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: Bunny CP/AP       Basford RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Bunny

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