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GOSFORD, a hamlet in Kidlington parish, Oxfordshire; adjacent to the river Cherwell, the Oxford canal, and the Oxford and Rugby railway, 4½ miles N of Oxford. Acres, 280. Real property, £449. Pop., 52. Houses, 11. A house of sisters, of the order of St. John of Jerusalem, once stood here, but was removed, about 1180, to Buckland, in Somerset.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Kidlington CP/AP Oxfordshire AncC |
Place: | Gosford |
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