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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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MICKLETON, a village and a parish in the district of Shipston-on-Stour and county of Gloucester. The village stands 2 miles W of the boundary with Warwick, 2½ N by E of Chipping-Campden r. station, and 6½ WNW of Shipston-on-Stour; and has a post office under Moreton-in-Marsh. The parish contains also the hamlets of Clopton and Hidcote-Bartrim. Acres, 3,766. Real property, £9,082. Pop., 743. Houses, 163. The manor belongs to Sir John M. Steele-Graves, Bart.; and the Manor House, a noble building in the Tudor style, is Sir John's seat. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £200. * Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Norman, partly pointed; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire; and contains monuments to the Steele and the Graves families. There are an endowed school with £50 a year, and charities £209. Graves, the author of the "Spiritual Quixote, ''and Keck, the lawyer, were natives.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Mickleton AP/CP Gloucestershire AncC |
| Place: | Mickleton |
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