Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HIGHAM-GOBION

HIGHAM-GOBION, a parish in Ampthill district, Beds; adjacent to Herts, 4½ miles WSW of Henlow r. station, and 6½ SE of Ampthill. Post town, Silsoe, under Ampthill. Acres, 1, 287. Real property, £1, 762. Pop., 121. Houses, 24. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Countess Cowper. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £350.* Patron, j. H. Marvin, Esq. The church is good, and contains a monument to Castell, author of the "Lexicon Heptaglotton, " who was rector.


(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: Higham Gobion CP/AP       Ampthill RegD/PLU       Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Higham Gobion

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