A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
THORNBOROUGH, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Buckingham; 3 miles E of Buckingham r. station. It has a postal letter-box under Buckingham. Acres, 2,530. Real property, £3,929. Pop., 694. Houses, 172. The property is much subdivided. A large barrow was opened here in 1839, and found to contain some curious Roman gold and bronze relics. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £158. Patron, Sir H. Verney, Bart. The church is neat. There are Calvinist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and a poors' allotment of 16 acres.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Thornborough CP/AP Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Thornborough |
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