Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DORTON, or Dourton

DORTON, or Dourton, a parish in the district of Thame and county of Buckingham; near Bernwood forest, 5½ miles N by W of Thame town and r. station. Post town, Brill, under Thame. Acres, 1, 431. Real property, £2, 514. Pop., 137. Houses, 33. The property is divided among a few. Dorton House belonged to the Aubreys, and passed to the Rickettses. A chaly-beate spa is here; and has been provided with pump-room and baths. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Ashendon, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is old but good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dorton Ch/CP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: DORTON     |     DORTON OR DOURTON     |     DOURTON
Place: Dorton

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