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QUARRENDON, or Quarrington, a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 1¾ mile N W of Aylesbury r.station. Post-town, Aylesbury. Acres, 2,080. Real property, £4, 318. Pop., 58. Houses, 14. The man..or belongs to J. Du Pre, Esq. Nearly all the land is devoted to grazing. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Bierton, in the diocese of Oxford. There is no church. A splendid chapel was erected here in 1392, by John Farnham; contained fine monuments and altar-tombs of the Lee family; and is now reduced to remains of a beautiful decorated English window, and a few roofless arches.
(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: | Quarrendon Parish Aylesbury Poor Law Union/Registration District Buckinghamshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | QUARRENDON | QUARRENDON OR QUARRINGTON | QUARRINGTON |
| Place: | Quarrendon |
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