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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Drayton Parslow like this:
DRAYTON-PARSLOW, a parish in Winslow district, Bucks; 2¼ miles ESE of Swanbourne r. station, and 4½ E by N of Winslow. It has a post office under Bletchley-Station. Acres, 1, 680. Real property, £2, 466. Pop., 468. Houses, 117. The property is divided among a few. Part of the land is common. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £400.* Patron, the Rev. B. Spurrel. The church has a tower, and is tolerable. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, and a recently-erected school.
Drayton Parslow is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Drayton Parslow itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6103
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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