Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Gayhurst

Gayhurst, par., N. Bucks, on river Ouse, 2½ miles NW. of Newport Pagnell, 1012 ac., pop. 91; contains Gayhurst House, a Tudor mansion, once the property of Sir Everard Digby (1581-1606) of the Gunpowder Plot, now seat of the Earl of Carrington.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Gayhurst AP/CP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Gayhurst

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