Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINCHENDON (Over or Upper)

WINCHENDON (Over or Upper), a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 5 miles W by N of Aylesbury r. station. Post town, Waddesdon, under Aylesbury. Acres, 1,030. Real property, £2,602. Pop., 220. Houses, 42. The manor belonged once to the Duke of Wharton, and belongs now to the Duke of Marlborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £60. Patron, the Duke of Marlborough. The church is ancient.


(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: Upper Winchendon AP/CP       Aylesbury RegD/PLU       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: OVER WINCHENDON     |     UPPER WINCHENDON     |     WINCHENDON     |     WINCHENDON OVER     |     WINCHENDON OVER OR UPPER     |     WINCHENDON UPPER
Place: Upper Winchendon

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