Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHALGRAVE

CHALGRAVE, a parish in Woburn district, Beds; 3¾ miles N by W of Dunstable r. station, and 6½ ENE of Leighton-Buzzard. It includes the hamlets of Tebworth and Wingfield; and its Post Town is Hockliffe, under Leighton-Buzzard. Acres, 2,130. Real property, £4,665. Pop., 761. Houses, 207. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £150. Patron, the Rev. J. M. Hamilton. The church is ancient There are a Wesleyan chapel and a n. school.


(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: Chalgrave CP/AP       Woburn PLU/RegD       Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Chalgrave

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