Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KINGSEY

KINGSEY, a village and a parish in Thame district, the village in Bucks, the parish partly in Oxford. The village stands 2 miles ENE of Thame r. station. The parish contains also the liberty of Tythrop. Post town, Thame. Acres, 4, 105. Real property, of the B. por tion, £1, 156; of the O. portion, £1, 340. Pop. of the for. mer, 171; of the latter, 66. Houses, 35 and 14. The property is divided among a few. The manors, with Tythrop House, belong to Capt. P. S. H. Wykeham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £250. * Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church was built in 1780, and has a low tower. There are national schools.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kingsey CP/AP       Thame RegD/PLU       Buckinghamshire AncC       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Kingsey

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