Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COOKHAM-DEAN

COOKHAM-DEAN, a chapelry, with a village, in Cookham parish, Berks; about a mile WNW of Cookham r. station. Pop., 743. Houses, 157. Part of the surface rises steeply to a height of 600 feet, and pa is a dell. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Oxford. Value, £120.* Patron, the Vicar of Cookham. The church was built in 1845. There are Independent and P. Methodist chapels, and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cookham CP/AP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Cookham Dean

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