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OXHEY, a hamlet and a chapelry in Watford parish, Herts. The hamlet lies on the Northwestern railway, at the boundary with Middlesex, 2½ miles S by E of Watford. Pop., 733. Houses, 153. The chapelry has nodefined limits, but may be regarded as coextensive with the hamlet; and its post town is Watford. The living is a donative in the diocese of Rochester. Value, notreported. Patron, T. H. S. Estcourt, Esq.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Hertfordshire AncC |
Place: | Oxhey |
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