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.
BLEDLOW, a village and a parish in Wycombe district, Bucks. The village stands in a romantic ravine, called the Glyde, on the verge of the county, adjacent to the Thame and Maidenhead railway, 2 miles SW of Princes Risborough; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Tring.—The parish includes also a liberty called Bledlow-Ridge. Acres, 4,130. Real property, £4,891. Pop., 1,189. Houses, 232. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £175.* Patron, Lord Carrington. The church is early English; has interesting features, injured by white-wash; and stands on the brink of the ravine at the village.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bledlow CP/AP Wycombe RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Bledlow |
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