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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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NEWTON-LONGVILLE, or Newaston-Longville, a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands 1 mile S of the Oxford and Bletchley railway, 2 S W of Bletchley r. station, and 10 E S E of Buckingham; and took the latter part of its name froma priory founded in the time of Henry I., as a cell to the Cluniac abbey of St. Faith, at Longueville in Normandy, and given, in 1415, to New College, Oxford. The parish comprises 1, 718 acres. Post-town, Bletchley Station. Real property, £2, 264. Pop, . 547. Houses, 121. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to New College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £330.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is partly early English, partly perpendicular; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and N chapel, with porches and W tower; has, on the outerwall, a statue of St. Faith; and contains piscinæ, credence shelves, and a recently-restored ancient font. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, and a national school. Grocyn, the tutor of Erasmus, was rector.
(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: | Newton Longville CP/AP Newport Pagnell RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place names: | NEWASTON LONGVILLE | NEWTON LONGVILLE | NEWTON LONGVILLE OR NEWASTON LONGVILLE |
| Place: | Newton Longville |
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