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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BURTON-DASSETT, a village and a parish in Southam district, and a division of Kington hundred, Warwick. The village stands 2½ miles W by S of Fenny-Compton r. station, and 4 E of Kington; and was once a markettown. The parish includes also the hamlets of Little Dassett, North End, and Knightcote; and its Post Town is Fenny-Compton, under Rugby. Acres, 5,400. Real property, £7,461. Pop., 655. Houses, 153. The manor belonged anciently to the Southleys; and passed to the Belknaps, the Wottons, the Stanhopes, and the Temples. The surface is hilly, and continued long to be a haunt of wild beasts. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £167.* Patrons, Lord Willoughby de Broke and R. W. Blencowe, Esq. Charities, £73.-The division contains ten parishes and part of another. Acres, 18,953. Pop., 3,815. Houses, 809.
(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: | Burton Dassett CP/AP Southam RegD/PLU Warwickshire AncC |
| Place: | Burton Dassett |
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