Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHICHELEY, or Chichley

CHICHELEY, or Chichley, a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; on an affluent of the river Ouse, 2½ miles NE of Newport-Pagnell r. station, and 6½ NE by E of Wolverton. Post town, Newport-Pagnell. Acres, 1, 620. Real property, £2, 892. Pop., 265. Houses, 55. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Chicheley Hall, built in 1769, belongs to M. Chester, Esq. The parish is a meet for the Oakley hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £116.* Patron,M. Chester, Esq. The church is early English and good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chicheley CP/AP       Newport Pagnell RegD/PLU       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: CHICHELEY     |     CHICHELEY OR CHICHLEY     |     CHICHLEY
Place: Chicheley

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