Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURY

BURY, a seat near Hemel-Hempstead, in Herts. It belonged once to the Waterhouses, and passed to the Wigginses. The house is chiefly modern, but includes part of a previous one in which Henry VIII. visited J. Waterhouse.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Hertfordshire Ancient County

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