Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINSLOW

WINSLOW, a small town, a parish, and a district, in Bucks. The town stands on the brow of a hill, adjacent to the Oxford and Bletchley railway, 6½ miles SE of Buckingham; was given, in 794, by King Offa, to St. Alban's abbey; is a seat of petty-sessions; comprises three neat well built streets, with a central market place; and has a head post-office,‡ a r. station with telegraph, a banking-office, a good inn, a police station, a later English church, Independent and Baptist chapels, an endowed school with £42 a year, a national boys' school, a parochial girls' school, a workhouse, charities £28, a weekly market on Wednesday, and ten annual fairs.—The parish comprises 1,920 acres. Real property, £7,631; of which £190 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,890. Houses, 376. The manor belongs to W. S. Lowndes, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £220.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor.—The district contains 15 parishes and a part. Acres, 35,395. Poor rates in 1863, £5,771. Pop. in 1851, 9,376; in 1861 9,265. Houses, 2,017. Marriages in 1866, 57; births, 314,-of which 16 were illegitimate; deaths, 189,-of which 70 were at ages under 5 years, and 8 at ages above 85. Marriages in the 10 years 1851-60, 631; births, 3,208; deaths, 2,037. The places of worship, in 1851, were 14 of the Church of England , with 3,666 sittings: 5 of Independents, with 676 s.; 6 of Baptists, with 652 s.; 5 of Wesleyans, with 893 s.; 4 of Primitive Methodists, with 640 s.; and 1 undefined, with 150 s. The schools were 10 public day-schools, with 482 scholars; 22 private day-schools, with 454 s.; 26 Sunday schools, with 1,676 s.; and 4 evening schools for adults, with 114 s.


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

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Winslow AP/CP       Winslow RegD/PLU       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Winslow

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