Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Chicksands Priory

Chicksands Priory, par., mid. Bedfordshire, on river Ivel, 5 miles NE. of Ampthill, pop. 43. The seat of Chicksands Priory includes part of a priory founded in 1150, and has an important art collection.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chicksands CP/ExP       Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Chicksands

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