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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "AMERSHAM ON THE HILL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  AMERSHAM	Buckinghamshire	AMERSHAM , a town a parish, a subdistrict, and a district in Bucks. The town was formerly called Agmondesham. It stands in a pleasant valley near the Misbourne tributary of the river Colne, surrounded by wood-crowned hills	Imperial
  AYLESBURY, or Ailesbury	Buckinghamshire	hills. Pop. of the town, returned with the parish; of the borough, the same as that of the hundred. The parish includes the hamlet of Walton. Acres, 3,200. Real property, £19,694. Pop., 6,168. Houses, 1,313. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The vicarage of Walton is a separate charge.-The subdistrict contains five parishes. Acres, 11,239. Pop., 8,272. Houses, 1,715.-The hundred, which is also the borough, comprises the parishes of Aylesbury, Aston-Clinton, Bierton-with-Broughton, Buckland, Cuddington, Haddenham	Imperial
  BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, or Bucks	Buckinghamshire	hills, about 16 miles broad, with summits from 683 feet to 904 feet high. The chief rivers are the Thames, the Thame, the Ouse, the Colne, the Ousel, and the Wick. Lias rocks occupy a small tract on the NW border, adjacent to Brackley; oolites, successively lower, middle, and upper, occupy most of the county from the northern boundary to lines a little south of Stoke-Hammond and Aylesbury; cretaceous rocks, successively lower greensand, upper greensand, and chalk, the last much the broadest, occupy most of the country thence to the southern boundary; and rocks of the lower eocene occupy	Imperial
  FARNHAM-ROYAL	Buckinghamshire	Amersham district, Bucks. The village lies near the Great Western railway, 2 miles NNW of Slough r. station, and 4 N of Windsor; and has a post office under Slough. The parish includes also the chapelry of Seer-Green, the hamlet of Hedgerley-Dean, and part of the village of Salt Hill	Imperial
  HAMPDEN (Great)	Buckinghamshire	hills, 3 miles ESE of PrincesRisborough r. station, and 4 S by W of Wendover. It contains the hamlet of Hampden Row; and its post town is Great Missenden, under Amersham	Imperial
  MISSENDEN (GREAT)	Buckinghamshire	Amersham, and 5¾ NNE of Wycombe r. station; is a considerable place; and has a post office under Amersham, and fairs on Easter Tuesday and the Monday after Old Michaelmas day. The parish comprises 5,731 acres. Real property, £7,623. Pop. in 1851,2,097; in 1861,2,250. Houses, 479. The property is much subdivided. The manor, with Missenden Abbey, belongs to Mrs. Carrington. Mobwell House is the residence of T. Honnor, Esq.; Woodlands Lodge, of J. E. M 'Connell, Esq.; and Hill	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	OXFORD , a city and a university in Oxfordshire, partly also in Berks, and a diocese comprehending nearlyall Oxfordshire and Berks	Imperial
  ROSS (NEW)	Wexford	ROSS (NEW) , an inland port, borough and market-town, and a parish, partly in the barony of SHELBURNE, but chiefly	Lewis:Ireland

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