Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWPORT

NEWPORT, a hundred in the N E of Bucks; bounded, on the W and the N, by Northamptonshire, on the E, by Beds, on the S, by Cottesloe; and containing Newport-Pagnell parish, forty-seven other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 74, 481. Pop. in 1851, 27, 879; in 1861, 30, 226. Houses, 6, 221.


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

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Newport Pagnell

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