Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PISHILL

PISHILL, a parish in Henley district, Oxford; underthe Chiltern hills, 5½ miles N N W of Henley r. station. Post-town, Henley-on-Thames. Acres, 785. Real property, £498. Pop., 214. Houses, 48. Most of the land belongs to Lord Camoys. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £100.* Patron, the Rev.E. R. Keene. The church was recently rebuilt. There are a national school and alms-houses, the latterwith £62 a year.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Pishill CP/AP       Henley RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Pishill

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