Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWTON-BLOSSOMVILLE

NEWTON-BLOSSOMVILLE, a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; on the river Ouse, at the boundary with Beds, 2½ miles E of Olney r. station, and 7 N N E of Newport-Pagnell. It has a postal wall-box under Newport-Paguell. Acres, 1,050. Real property, £1, 456. Pop. in 1851, 332; in 1861, 277. Houses, 57. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £156.* Patron, the Rev. J. H. Talbot. The church has a tower, and was reported in 1859 as not good. There is a parochial school.


(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: Newton Blossomville Parish       Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union/Registration District       Buckinghamshire Ancient County
Place: Newton Blossomville

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