Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ASTWOOD

ASTWOOD, a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; on the verge of the county, 5½ miles ENE of Newport-Pagnell, and 7 N of Ridgmount r. station. Post Town, Newport-Pagnell. Acres, 1,259. Real property, £1,880. Pop., 247. Houses, 65. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £230.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is 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: Astwood AP/CP       Newport Pagnell RegD/PLU       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Astwood

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