Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ADSTOCK

ADSTOCK, a parish in the district and county of Buckingham; on the Bucks railway, midway between Buckingham and Winslow. Post Town, Buckingham. Acres, 1,130. Real property, £2,102. Pop., 385. Houses, 83. The property is not much divided. The market for Buckingham and Winslow was held here during the plague of 1665. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £444.* Patron, Philip Hart, Esq. The church is ancient but good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Adstock AP/CP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Adstock

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