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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Boveney like this:
BOVENEY, a chapelry in Burnham parish, Bucks; on the River Thames, near the Great Western railway, 2 miles W of Eton. Post Town, Dorney, under Windsor. Acres, 480. Rated property, £657. Pop., 152. Houses, 31. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Burnham, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is good.
Boveney is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Boveney itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Boveney in Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3185
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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