Buckinghamshire is bounded North by Northamptonshire, East by Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, South by Berkshire, and West by Oxfordshire. Its shape is oblong, being about fifty miles long and sixteen broad. It has eight hundreds; namely Ashendon, Aylesbury, Buckingham, Burnham, Cottesloe, Desborough, Newport and Stoke. Rivers: the Thames, the Ouse and the Colne. It has 16 Market-Towns, is in the Province of Canterbury, principally in the Diocese of Lincoln, but partly in those of Canterbury and London, and is in the Norfolk Circuit. It contains 740 square miles, or 473,600 acres. Population, 155,983.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Amersham is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Buckinghamshire. Other places in the parish include: Coleshill and Coles Hill. Alternative names: Amersham with Coleshill, Agmondesham Status: Ancient Parish Parish church: St. Mary Parish registers begin: Parish registers: 1561 Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600 Nonconformists include: Baptist, General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Society …
Thornton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire. Parish church: Parish registers begin: 1562 Nonconformists include: Baptist and Independent/Congregational Parishes adjacent to Thornton Beachampton Leckhampstead Wicken Whaddon Thornborough Historical Descriptions Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850 Thornton, 3 m. N.E. Buckingham. P. 101 Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; …
Thornborough is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire. Parish church: Parish registers begin: 1602 Nonconformists include: Calvinist and Wesleyan Methodist. Parishes adjacent to Thornborough Thornton Maids Moreton Buckingham Leckhampstead Whaddon Adstock Great Horwood Foscott Padbury Historical Descriptions Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850 Thornborough, 2 miles E. Buckingham. P. 762 Source: Leonard’s …
Stowe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire. Other places in the parish include: Dadfort, Dadford, Boycott, and Lamport Parish church: Parish registers begin: 1568 Nonconformists include: Parishes adjacent to Stowe Biddlesden Water Stratford Westbury Maids Moreton Radclive Shalstone Lillingstone Dayrell Akeley Historical Descriptions Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850 Stowe, 1½ …
Stony Stratford is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Buckinghamshire, created in 1767 from St Giles chapelry in Calverton Parish and St Mary Magdalen chapelry in Wolverton Parish. Other places in the parish include: Stony Stratford West and Stony Stratford East. Parish church: St Mary & St Giles Parish registers …
Stoke Mandeville is a chapelry of Bierton with Broughton Ancient Parish in Buckinghamshire. Parish church: Parish registers begin: 1699 Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist. Parishes adjacent to Stoke Mandeville Wendover Stone with Bishopstone Ellesborough Hartwell Walton Holy Trinity Weston Turville Great Kimble Historical Descriptions Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850 …
Stewkley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire. Alternative names: Stukeley Other places in the parish include: Littlecote. Parish church: Parish registers begin: 1545 Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist. Parishes adjacent to Stewkley Soulbury Drayton Parslow Whitchurch Mursley Dunton Cublington Wing Historical Descriptions Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850 Stukeley, …