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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "SANDFORD ON THAMES":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ABINGDON		ABINGDON , a town, two parishes, a subdistrict, and a district in Berks. The town comprises parts of the two parishes	Imperial
  ASTON-SANDFORD		SANDFORD , a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; on a branch of the river Thame, 6 miles SW of Aylesbury r. station	Imperial
  AYLESBURY, or Ailesbury		Thame. Lace-making once flourished, but has greatly declined; straw-plait-making is prosperous; there is a silk factory; and about £22,000 worth of ducks are annually sent to London. Aylesbury is the seat of the assizes for the county, the principal place of the county elections, and the sent of the county quarter sessions. It was a borough, governed by a corporation, under a charter of Mary, dated 1554; but, from neglect and disuse of its privileges, it forfeited the charter in the time of Elizabeth. It sends two members to parliament; but, in 1804, in consequence	Imperial
  CHERTSEY		Sandford and Merton. " The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £203.* Patrons, the Haberdashers' Company. The chapelries of Addlestone, Long Cross, Ottershaw, and Botleys, are separate charges. -The sub-district contains also the parishes of Byfleet and Pyrford. Acres, 14, 165. Pop., 7, 740. Houses, 1, 491. The district comprehends likewise the sub-district of Walton, containing the parishes of Walton-on-Thames	Imperial
  LONDON		LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  SANDFORD		SANDFORD , a parish in the district of Abingdon and county of Oxford; on the river Thames, 2¾ miles N by E of Culham	Imperial
  Sandford on Thames		Sandford on Thames , par. and vil., Oxfordshire - par., 1005 ac., pop. 318; vil., on river Thames, 3 miles SE. of Oxford	Bartholomew
  SONNING		Thames, 2 miles W by N of Twyford r. station, and 3 ENE of Reading; was the seat of a bishopric, afterwards removed to Sherborne, and finally to Salisbury; retained an episcopal palace till the time of Elizabeth; contains a house in which Sydney Smith wrote "Peter Plymley's Letters; '' and has a post-office under Reading, and an excellent inn. The parish comprises the liberties of S.-Town, Earley, and Woodley and Sandford	Imperial
  Woodley and Sandford		Sandford , township, Sonning par., Berks, on river Thames, 2 miles E. of Reading, 3690 ac., pop. 1112; contains Woodley , eccl	Bartholomew
  WOODLEY and SANDFORD		SANDFORD , a liberty in Sonning parish, Berks; on the Thames, 2 miles E of Reading. Pop., 917. Houses, 183. Bulmershe	Imperial

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