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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Penn Street like this:
PENN-STREET, a hamlet in Penn parish, and a chapelry partly also in Little Missenden parish, Bucks. The hamlet lies 3¼ miles W by S of Amersham, and 3¼ E N E of Wycombe r. station: and has a post-office under Amersham. The chapelry was constituted in 1850. Rated property, £1, 500. ...
Pop., 693. Houses, 161. Pop. of the Penn portion, 251. Houses, 59. The property is subdivided. Penn House here, a very ancient building, is the residence of Viscount Curzon. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £143. Patron, Earl Howe. The church is modern, cruciform, and beautiful; and has a lofty spire.
Penn Street is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Penn Street itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Penn Street in Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21588
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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