Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEWKNOR

LEWKNOR, a village, a sub-district, and a hundred in Oxford, and a parish partly also in Bucks. The village stands near Icknield-street, under the Chilterns, 2½ miles NE of Watlington, and 5 S of Thame r. station; and has a post office under Tetsworth.—The parish includes also Postcombe chapelry in Thame district, Oxford, and Lewknor-Uphill township in Wycombe district and partly in Bucks. Acres of the Thame district portion, 2,688; of the whole, 4,690. Real property of the T. d. portion, £3,144; of the whole, £5,339. Pop. of the T. d. portion, 598; of the whole, 833. Houses of the T. d. portion, 127; of the whole, 171. The manor belongs to the Rev. Sir Edward Jodrell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Valne, £350.* Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church is of varions dates; has a decorated English chancel, and a square tower; and contains a curious rich Norman font, a brass of 1370, and monuments of the Scroops and the Fanes. The p. curacy of Ashampstead or Cadmore-End is a separate benefice. There are a national school, and charities £7.—The sub-district is in Thame district; and contains that district's portion of the parish, and eleven entire parishes. Acres, 18,412. Pop.,3,701. Houses, 801.-The hundred contains ten parishes and part of another. Acres, 19,338. Pop., 5,456. Houses, 1,138.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, a sub-district, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lewknor CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Lewknor

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