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CHICKSGROVE, a tything in East Tisbury and Wardour parishes, Wilts; 4¼ miles ESE of Hindon. Real property, with Tisbury, Hatch, and Staple, £1, 888. Sir J. Davis, born in 1570, Was a native. Gassen farm-house here belonged to Shaftsbury Abbey, and retains doorways and windows of ancient pointed architecture.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a tything" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Wiltshire AncC |
Place: | Chicksgrove |
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