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BRADWELL-ABBEY, an extra-parochial tract in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; on the Northwestern railway, contiguous to Bradwell parish, 3½ miles SE by E of Stony-Stratford. Acres, 650. Real property, £550. Pop., 14. Houses, 3. A small black priory was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by a baron of Wolverton; and given, at the dissolution, to Arthur Longfield; and is now a farmhouse.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an extra-parochial tract" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union/Registration District Buckinghamshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Bradwell |
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