A vision of Britain through time
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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.
STONE, a parish, with a village and three hamlets, in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 2½ miles WSW of Aylesbury r. station. It has a post-office under Aylesbury. Acres, 2,590. Real property, £5,742. Pop. in 1851, 785; in 1861, 1,094,-of whom 295 were in the Bucks lunatic asylum. Houses, 169. The manor belongs to Dr. J. Lee. Peveraland St. John's Lodge are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £390.* Patron, the Royal Astronomical Society. The church is early English, with Norman arches; and was recently restored. There are two Wesleyan chapels and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village and three hamlets" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stone CP/AP Aylesbury RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Stone |
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