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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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HEDGERLEY, a village and a parish in Eton district, Bucks. The village stands 2¾ miles SE of Beaconsfield, and 5 N of Slough r. station; and has a post office under Slough. The parish comprises 1, 065 acres. Real property, £1, 519. Pop., 153. Houses, 32. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Hedgerley Park, belongs to R. R. Clayton, Esq. The mansion of Hedgerley Park is a handsome edifice, with Doric pillars from the portico of old Lady Place. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £155. Patron, Edward Baylis, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1852: has a tower; and contains an ancient circular font, and a palimpsest brass of Abbot Totyngton.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hedgerley CP/AP Eton RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Hedgerley |
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