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Unit Name Type of Unit Containing Unit (and Type) NEW BRADWELL LG_Ward Parish-level Unit WOLVERTON UD (Local Government District)
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Place name County Entry Source BRADWELL Buckinghamshire BRADWELL , a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; on the Newport-Pagnell railway, 3 miles ESE of Stony-Stratford. It has a post office under Stony-Stratford, and a railway station. Acres, 892. Real property, £3,452. Pop., 1,658. Houses, 233. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £191.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The parochial church is early English; and New Imperial ESSEX Essex Bradwell, Colne-Park, Coopersale, Copped-Hall, Coptfold, Dewshall, Faulkbourn, Fitzwalter-Park, Forest House, Gosfield, Greensted, Hallingbury, Ham-House, Hyde, Horstead, Kelvedon, Langleys, Mark's Hall, Mangham's-Hall, Orsett, Priory, Rettenden, Sandon, Skreens, Spain's-Hall, Stisted, Valentines, Waltham, Warley, Weald-Hall, Wanstead, Wivenhoe, and Woodford. Real property in 1815, £1, 584, 108; in 1843, £1, 935, 610; in 1851, £1, 961, 308; in 1860, £2, 193, 154, -of which £3, 941 were in fisheries, £786 in canals, and £5, 509 in gas-works. The county is governed by a lord lieutenant, custos Imperial MALDON Essex new nut-making factory, and an extensive fishery. The nut-making factory is at Heybridge; was erected in 1865; and has a chimney 116 feet high, visible for miles all round. Much commerce is carried on in corn, hay, straw, coals, lime, chalk, oilcake, manures, and timber. Small vessels come up to the bridge; and larger ones ascend by a canal, 2½ miles Long, past Heybridge, to Colliers' Reach quay. The town is a head-port; and has Burnham, Bradwell Imperial NEWPORT-PAGNELL Buckinghamshire new capital of £80,000 in shares, and £26,000 in loans. The manor, before coming to the Paganels, was held by Fitz-Ausculph; and it passed from the Paganelsto the Someries and others. The castle probably stoodnear the church. The Cluniac priory stood on the spot now occupied by Tickford Abbey, the residence of O. Massey, Esq. One of the bridges is a light iron structure over the Ouzle; and the other is a handsome stone structure, with a long causeway, over the Ouse. The church is a large and handsome edifice of pointed architecture; consists Imperial Stantonbury Buckinghamshire Wolverton - par., 806 ac., pop. 35; dist. (Stantonbury with New Bradwell), comprising Stantonbxiry par. and part of Bradwell par., pop. 2085; P.O., T.O. Bartholomew STANTONBURY Buckinghamshire New Bradwell, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £180.* Patron, Earl Spencer. The old church is partly Norman. The new Imperial
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