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.
RODBORNE-CHENEY, a parish in Highworth district, Wilts; on the North Wilts canal, and adjacent to the Swindon and Gloucester and the Great Western railways, 2½ miles N N W of Swindon. It includes thetythings of Even-Swindon, Haydon, Haydon-Wick, and Moredon; and its post town is Swindon. Acres, 2, 728. Real property, £5,045. Pop., 670. Houses, 132. The property is much subdivided. Limestone is largelyquarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £110.* Patron, the Rev. R. Haking. The church is ancient, and was restored and enlarged in 1848. There are an Independentchapel, and an endowed school with £43 a year.
(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: | Rodbourne Cheney CP/AP Swindon and Highworth RegD/PLU Wiltshire AncC |
| Place: | Rodbourne Cheney |
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