Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BALDON-MARSH

BALDON-MARSH, a parish in the district of Abingdon and county of Oxford; on the Roman road from Alcester to Wallingford, 3½ miles E by N of Culham r station, and 6 SE of Oxford. Post Town, Nuneham Courtney under Oxford. Acres, 570. Real property, £1,370. Pop., 342. Houses, 69. Baldon House be longed formerly to the Pollards; and passed to the baronet family of Willoughby. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £93.*-Sir H. P. Willoughby, Bart. The church is later English. There are a free school, and charities £9.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Marsh Baldon Parish       Oxfordshire Ancient County
Place: Marsh Baldon

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