Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KEMPSHOT

KEMPSHOT, a tything in Winslade parish, Hants; 3 miles SW of Basingstoke. Here was the seat of the Pinks; one of whom was warden of New College, Oxford, in the time of Elizabeth. Kempshot House was a hunting box of George IV., and is now the residence of W. Blunt, Esq.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Winslade CP/AP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Kempshott

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