Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TWYFORD

TWYFORD, a parish, with Poundon and Charndon hamlets, in the district and county of Buckingham; 3 miles W of Claydon r. station, and 5½ SSW of Buckingham. Post town, Buckingham. Acres, 4,110. Real property, £6,609. Pop. in 1851, 848; in 1861, 694. Houses, 166. The manors belong to A. W. Crouch, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £725.* Patron, Lincoln College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with Poundon and Charndon hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Twyford CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Twyford

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