Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GAWCOTT

GAWCOTT, a chapelry in Buckingham parish, Bucks; 2 miles SSW of Buckingham town and r. station. It has a post office under Buckingham. Real property, £1, 874. Pop., 571. Houses, 140. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £148.* Patrons, Trustees. The church was rebuilt in 1828. Charities, £69.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Buckingham AP/CP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Gawcott

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