Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TINGEWICK

TINGEWICK, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district and county of Buckingham. The village stands 3¼ miles W by S of Buckingham r. station, was once a market town, and has a post-office under Buckingham. The parish comprises 2,290 acres. Real property, £3,795. Pop., 914. Houses, 206. The property is subdivided. Lace-making is carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value. £500. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church has Norman remains, and is good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £15 a year, and charities £13.—The sub-district contains 8 parishes. Acres, 15,962. Pop., 3,671. Houses, 841.


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

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Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tingewick CP/AP       Tingewick SubD       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Tingewick

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