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HANSLOPE, a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands near the Northwestern railway and the boundary with Northampton, 4½ miles N by W of Wolverton r. station, and 4½ N by E of Stony-Stratford; was once a market town; and has a post office‡ under Stony-Stratford, and a cattle fair on Holy Thursday. The parish comprises 5, 290 acres. Real property, £8, 966. Pop. in 1851, 1, 604; in 1861, 1, 792. Houses, 352. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Beauchamps; and belongs now to W. Watts, Esq. Lace making is extensively carried on. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Castlethorpe, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £152. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is early English; and has a pinnacled tower, with octagonal spire, 190 feet high, rebuilt in 1804. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, a national school, and charities £179.
(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: | Hanslope CP/AP Newport Pagnell RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Hanslope |
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