Place:


St Margarets  Buckinghamshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St Margarets like this:

MARGARET (ST.), or STREET, a hamlet in Ivinghoe parish, Bucks; on Icknield-street, 1 mile NW of Great Gaddesden, and 6 SE of Ivinghoe. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in 1160, by Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester.

Additional information about this locality is available for Ivinghoe

St Margarets through time

St Margarets is now part of Dacorum district. Click here for graphs and data of how Dacorum has changed over two centuries. For statistics about St Margarets itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of St Margarets, in Dacorum and Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26052

Date accessed: 05th November 2024


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