A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
GERRARDS-CROSS, a village and a chapelry in Fulmer parish, Bucks. The village stands 3 miles ESE of Beaconsfield, and 6 N by E of Slough r. station; and has a post office‡ under Slough. The chapelry was recently constituted, and does not appear to have defined limits. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £136.* . Patrons, the Misses Reid. The church is a memorial one to Major-General Reid, by his sisters, the Misses Reid; stands on a wide common; was built in 1859, after designs by Tite; and is in a style travestied from the Lombardic.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Fulmer Ch/CP Gerrards Cross CP/Ch Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Gerrards Cross |
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