Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ASSENDON

ASSENDON, a liberty in Pirton parish, Oxford; 4 miles NW of Henley-on-Thames. It has a post office under Henley. A land-spring here breaks out after a run of wet weather; and is so copious as to inundate neighbouring low tracts.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a liberty"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Assendon

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