Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TOTTERNHOE

TOTTERNHOE, a parish, with a village, in Luton district, Beds; 2 miles SW by W of Dunstable r. station. Post town, Dunstable. Acres, 2,394. Real property, £3,418. Pop. in 1851, 753; in 1861, 652. Houses, 144. The property is subdivided. T. Castle is a double-ditched ancient British camp. Straw-plait working is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £180.* Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is later English. There are two Wesleyan chapels.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Totternhoe Parish       Luton Poor Law Union/Registration District       Bedfordshire Ancient County
Place: Totternhoe

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