Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MILTON

MILTON, a village and a township in Shipton-under-Wychwood parish, Oxford. The village stands 1½ mile WSW of Shipton r. station, 3 E of the boundary with Gloucester, and 4 N by E of Burford; is a considerable place; and has a post office, of the name of Milton-under-Wychwood, under Chipping-Norton. The township comprises 2,130 acres. Real property, £3,266. Pop. in 1851,799; in 1861,895. Houses, 200. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ducie. A church and a national school-house were built in 1854; and there are three dissenting chapels.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shipton under Wychwood CP/AP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Milton under Wychwood

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