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.
CRENDON (Long), a parish in the district of Thame and county of Buckingham; on the river Thame, adjacent to the boundary with Oxfordshire, 2¼ miles N of Thame r. station. It has a post office under Thame. Acres, 3, 120. Real property, £5, 892. Pop., 1, 570. Houses, 356. The property is much subdivided. Nutley Abbey here was founded, in 1162, by William Gifford, Earl of Buckingham; and the remains of it are now included in a picturesque farm-house. An ancient cemetery was discovered in 1824, near the supposed site of the castle of the Giffords; and yielded some curious relics of Roman pottery and sepulture. A kistvaen, with urns, was found in 1849. A royalist force, under Col. Blagge, was beaten here, in 1644, by the parliamentarians. Some of the inhabitants are needle-makers. The living*is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £134. Patron, Lord Churchill. The church is early English and cruciform; has a bell from Nutley Abbey; and contains a font resting upon lions, and a monument of Sir John Dormer of 1605. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and charities £44.
(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: | Long Crendon AP/CP Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place names: | CRENDON | CRENDON LONG | LONG CRENDON |
| Place: | Long Crendon |
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