A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DRAYTON-BEAUCHAMP, a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; on the Wendover canal, at the boundary with Herts, near the Northwestern railway, 2 miles WNW of Tring. Post town, Tring. Acres, 1,874. Real property, £2, 743. Pop., 268. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Cheynes; and the moat of their residence remains. Drayton-Cross-road and Drayton-Mead are meets for the Whaddon-Chase hounds and the Tring harriers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £275.* Patron, S. Jenney, Esq. The church is early English; has two fine brasses of the Cheynes, a large marble monument of Lord Newhaven, and a figured old east window; and is good. Charities, £8. Hooker was rector.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Drayton Beauchamp AP/CP Aylesbury RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Drayton Beauchamp |
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