Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HENSINGTON

HENSINGTON, a hamlet in Bladon parish, Oxford; 2 miles S of Woodstock. Acres, 340. Real property, £1, 537. Pop., 271. Houses, 41. The Woodstock workhouse is here; and, at the Census of 1861, had 86 inmates.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bladon AP/CP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Hensington

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